March 27 Sunday – In Rome Sam wrote to Chatto & Windus.

We have just arrived here & shall remain two or three weeks. …

I received the two copies of the magazine in Berlin & got lots of entertainment out of them. I ought to have thanked you long ago, but I was attending to the influenza & couldn’t.

Sam advised them he would need another Wirt fountain pen in time, “one that is as limber as a quill” so they might capture one for him. “This stiff one brings back my rheumatism every time I put in a full day’s work with it” [MTP].

The N.Y. Times included Mark Twain, first in a list of literary contributors, Author’s Club for the purpose of making 250 copies of a specialty book available in the fall [Mar. 27, 1892, p.19 “Club News and Gossip”].

Note: No hotels are given for Sam or Livy’s letters from Rome, although Susy Clemens’ letters gives the Hotel Molaro. This may have been the family’s sole hotel.