March 26 Saturday – Sam inscribed a copy of P&P to Harriet Beecher Stowe:

To Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe / with the reverence & admiration / of / The Author, / self-appointed instructor of the public / under the name of / Mark Twain / Hartford, March 26, 1887 [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote to Sam about offers from “Sir Roger” Tichborne for his autobiography; and Paul Boynton “of amphibious fame, who proposes to write a book of his adventures” [MTLTP 219n3]. See Gribben p.81.