April 12 Saturday – An English version of the P&P play opened at the Gaiety Theatre in London [MTNJ 3: 482]. Note: this had been authorized by Sam and Andrew Chatto.

Moncure D. Conway wrote from London about the P&P play — he’d seen the first performance of it and could not sleep until he had “put on paper an assurance for you of its wondrous success.” He also thought CY was “a pretty book” [MTP].

Mrs. H.N. Ralston wrote from Hyattsville, Md. To send Sam a poem “in consideration of our common dignity as pioneers of Nevada.” Sam wrote on the envelope, “I will answer / SLC” [MTP]. Note: James H. Ralston was in the 1863 Nevada Constitutional convention with Sam; See MT in Nevada by Mack, p. 275 or Smith’s MT of the Enterprise, p. 106. This may have been the Mrs.