March 12 Wednesday – In New York Sam wrote to Charles W. Dayton about letters addressed to Mark Twain for an address in New York that did not exist. Sam had cabled the wrong address to Paris and was afraid that many responses would go to the dead letter office [MTP, paraphrase of Am. Art Assoc. catalog, Mar. 13, 1918 Item 77]. Note: Dayton would join Tammany Hall in 1891 and was appointed N.Y. Postmaster in 1893.

Anna H. Bumstead wrote from Roxbury, Mass. to Sam. Though Mrs. Edmund Asa Ware had recently died, Anna asked that Sam continue his $25 annual contribution until her four “children have received their education.” Sam wrote on the envelope, “Brer please send her $25. SLC” [MTP].

Daniel Whitford wrote to Sam: “I send you copy of a letter which I have received today from Mr. Frohman’s Attorneys and our reply” The letter from Hower & Hummel, Daniel Frohman’s attorneys:

Owing to the decision of Judge Daly enjoining our clients from the performance of “The Prince and the Pauper”, with the consent of the plaintiff, [House] we have been compelled in order to obtain that consent, to arrange with the plaintiff for a deposit with his attorneys for the royalties accruing to Mr. Clemens under the contract. The stipulation is to the effect that those deposits shall be made until such time as there shall be a final determination of this action…  

Frohman would withhold Sam’s royalty payments, but Sam would be refunded should the court rule in his favor. Whitford replied that whatever arrangement Frohman and House’s attorneys have made, it was without Clemens’ consent; they would not acquiesce in its implementation, and would take the proper action whenever House’s attorneys served papers on Sam or his attorney. Sam wrote “Important!” on the envelope [MTP].

Whitford wrote a second letter to Sam that they had not yet been served by House’s attorneys, and that the “morning newspapers” reported a settlement between Frohman and House, whereby House would leave Frohman alone for five years [MTP].