May 30 Wednesday – John Habberton for the N.Y. Herald wrote to Sam, thanking him for his “kind note of 28th inst.,” and asking if Webster & Co. could handle his “screed” [MTP].

The Hartford Courant, p.8 under “Sheridan’s Memoirs” ran “An Interesting Interview” with Mark Twain.

A reporter for THE COURANT found Mark Twain at his home in this city, and asked him about General Sheridan and his relations with him. Mr. Clemens (Mark Twain) said he had known the gentleman for twenty years or more, having first met him in Washington at a reception at General Grant’s before the latter was elected president. Their personal acquaintance, however, had been mainly a matter of later years. It appears now that Mark Twain’s publishing house of Charles L. Webster 7 Co. is to stand in the same relation to Sheridan as to Grant…[the reporter asked if it was true what ran in the Critic that Gen. Sheridan had written an autobiography and if Sam could discuss it.]

      Mark Twain—Mr. Webster and I called on General Sheridan at his office in the war department a couple of years ago, and made a contract with him for his autobiography, upon terms satisfactory to both parties. This was not long after we published the second volume of General Grant’s “Personal Memoirs.” General Sheridan was as reluctant to try the untried field of authorship as had been General Grant before him; but the desire to secure a comfortable provision for their families prevailed with both. [Not in Scharnhorst.]