March 19 Wednesday – Susy Clemens’ eighteenth birthday.

Sam wrote a postcard to Franklin G. Whitmore:
Yes, send me all letters that refer to the article, whether they cuss or applaud [MTP].

Rudyard Kipling’s famous interview with Mark Twain from August, 1889 ran again in the Allahabad, India The Pioneer Mail [Tenney 18; Baetzhold, John Bull 358n18].

Sam’s notebook: “Mch. 19, ’90 Chas. Hopkins Clark … one — (as trustee for Hartford Free Library) [Paige royalty sent]” [3: 569].

Bissell & Co. per Havens wrote to Sam, returning a “protested check” of $82.13 by F.D. Bunce [MTP]. Note: this check endorsed from Bunce to Frohman to Sam for royalties on the P&P play.

Hanson C. Gibson for Bank of New York wrote to Sam, returning another stopped check of F.D. Bunce to Daniel Frohman in the amount of $80.80, which had been endorsed over to Whitford and then to Sam [MTP].

Routledge & Sons wrote to Sam asking him to “kindly correct and revise” the enclosed sketch of his life that appeared in the last edition of Men of the Time [MTP].

G.G. Green, “sole manufacturer of Boschee’s Oil” wrote to Sam asking about the artist in CY. Sam wrote on the envelope for Whitmore to “decline — paying no attention to his inquiry about an artist. Be cold & distant to this bilk. SLC” [MTP].