March 14 Saturday – Frederick J. Hall came to Hartford to discuss business; he spent the night at the Clemens home. Among other things he and Sam discussed the idea of issuing a cheap edition of Mark Twain books for trade publication, beginning with HF [MTNJ 3: 607&n117].

Ernst Von Hesse Wartegg wrote from N.Y. to Sam, thanking him for quoting a passage from one of his books in LM, “This quotation refers to a Chapter on ‘Yellow Jack’ in my Mississippi ‘fahrless’ [?] published 1881 at Liepzig.” He enclosed a circular on his latest book, Thousand and One Days in the Occident, and asked for Sam’s photograph [MTP].