February 25 Wednesday – Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam about having a mock-up of the memory game made:

I have just found a man who is the one we want to make up a dummy…I will hurry him along as fast as possible. As soon as it is completed I shall come up with it as you suggest…[MTP].

Sam also wrote to his brother, Orion Clemens, that he’d “shook the machine”:

..when the pig-headed lunatic, its inventor dies, it will instantly be capitalized & make the Clemens children rich.

But I am done; & have gone to work to rebuild my wasted fortunes. The task I have set myself is to earn $75,000 in three months from Feb. 13, & collect the money a year from now. I shall succeed, there is no doubt of that.

Sam also told of his new book (AC); of waking up at night “laughing at its ridiculous situations” [MTP].

James E. Rhoads, President of Bryn Mawr College, wrote to set Mar. 23 for Sam’s reading before the students [MTP]. Note: Sam jumped at the chance to see daughter Susy and accepted (not extant); There is an entry in his notebook, however, naming Rhoads, the time and place, 4 p.m. [MTNJ 3: 603].