March 13 Saturday – Orion Clemens wrote to Sam (Mollie added her letter on Mar. 17). He wrote about returning a check and of their mother’s finances, which were adequate. He wrote of Jane’s love of singing and dancing “(not ballet dancing). If there are no minstrels in heaven she will leave.” Mollie began a letter she finished on Mar. 17, mostly of Ma:

She goes wandering back to her childhood. She talks often of going back to Columbia — has almost entirely forgotten having lived in Hannibal, St. Louis, or Fredonia. The other night staid up a long time thinking you were here and she did not know where she was to sleep as you were here to occupy her bed. And it is next to impossible to get one of these ideas out of her mind [MTP].

Kate Field wrote to Sam, enclosing a glowing newspaper squib about her Mormon and Dickens lectures, the paper unidentified. Pressing her case for Webster & Co. To publish her history of Mormonism, she wrote:

Now, oblige me by reading enclosed pamphlet and then you’ll know what I’m driving at; and don’t think I went to Utah to study up for a crusade. The going there was pure accident. Please ask your wife with my compliments whether there is any charity she is interested in that would care to have me give my Mormon lectures [MTP]. Note: Sam never cared much for female platform speakers.