March 9 Monday – In Hartford Franklin G. Whitmore answered Howard P. Taylor’s Mar. 8 letter for Sam, who responded he had “said nothing to any body or considered any offers from any body in relation to the dramatization of the ‘Yankee’.” How long of an extension did Taylor want? [MTP].

Lucy G. Burt wrote from Adams, Mass. to Sam, asking where she might find “the piece, ‘How I Got Rid of a Troublsome Conscience’”. Sam wrote on the envelope, “Brer, I think it’s in White Elephant under head of ‘The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut’ SLC ” [MTP].

August N. Sampson for New England Phonograph wrote to Sam that they wanted to ship the ordered phonograph the night of Mar. 10; also that their agent, Mr. T.H. Macdonald, would come up to Hartford from Bridgeport to set up the machine and instruct on its use [MTP].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to advise he’d sent “by express to-day a dummy of the [memory] game.” Hall understood that Sam wanted the title of the game to be “Mark Twain’s Fact and Date Game.” He was also surprised that they were getting as many applications for the upcoming Sherman book as they’d received for the Sheridan book, but there were complications with James G. Blaine’s additions to the book [MTP].