March 27 Saturday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Charles Webster about complaints against the Hartford canvasser of his books who lived in Thompsonville — “canvassing invisible.” And about Frederick Grant:

I don’t quite know what kind of an offer I can make…but I am keeping the thing in my slow mind, & when it crystallized I will report [MTP].

The note of acceptance to speak at West Point mentioned in Mar. 30 from General Merritt, suggests it was sent about this day. It is not listed in the MTP outgoing letters.

A compositor for the Cincinnati Enquirer, Mr. Duguid, won the typesetting tournament in Philadelphia, edging out McCann of the New York Herald [N.Y. Times, Mar. 28, 1886, p.2].