March – Webster & Co. sent “Books sent out during February, 1890” totaling 4,631, with 1,759 CY leading [MTP]. Note: the MTP catalogues this as a Feb. incoming entry.

In an unfinished piece titled, “Concerning the Scoundrel Edward H. House,” Sam accused House of lying about collaborating on Arrah-na-Pogue, or The Wicklow Wedding, the 1864 play in Dublin, Ireland by Dion Boucicault. Sam put this claim behind his suggesting House dramatize P&P,

I have been laughed at for believing Mr. House’s statement, but I did believe it, all the same. He told me that his share of the proceeds was $25,000. A theatre manager assures me that Mr. House merely wrote a few lines in ‘Arrah no Pogue’ to protect Mr. Boucicault’s rights here against pirates [MTNJ 3: 545n188]. Note: House secured American copyright in 1891 for a popular song from the play, “The Wearing of the Green,” as co-author with Boucicault.