March 23 Tuesday – Sam went New York for a meeting Charles Webster and Jesse Grant at the Normandie Hotel the next morning [Mar. 19 to Webster, MTP; N.Y. Times, Mar. 24 p.2 “Personal Intelligence”]. Other business and/or pleasure was on his docket, as he spent three days in the City. This trip may be the occasion which Susy referred to in her unfinished biography of her father. If so, Livy was with Sam, and Miss Ella J. Corey (a childhood friend of Livy’s) stayed with the Clemens children [Salsbury 221].

The New York Times, p.8, “Lives of Distinguished Men,” announced a second delay in the release of Volume II of Grant’s Memoirs, this time until May 1.