February 20 Saturday – Thomas Fitch wrote to Sam, sending a manuscript of a play written by his wife, Anna Mariska Fitch, a novelist who Sam described as:

 …an able romanticist of the ineffable school — I know no other name to apply to a school whose heroes are all dainty and all perfect [RI, Ch. LI].

See Aug. 2, 1863 for reference on Thomas Fitch. He asked Sam to:

…send it to some theatrical manager or personage, with such endorsement of it as will secure its being read [for] with an introduction from you it will at least gain a favorable inspection [MTNJ 3: 231n11]. Note: Sam passed the play on to Laurence Hutton who panned it; then to William H. Gillette.