April 2 Saturday – From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, p.13, “Brief Mention of New Books”:

Mark Twain’s humor isn’t always of a delicate sort, but one forgives that fault for the laughs with which every page of his work is sprinkled. It is the intention of the publishers to bring out in this series all the popular little classics in the French, Spanish and Italian as well as the English language [Budd, Contemporary 323].

A.P. Marston for Columbia Typographical Union in Washington, D.C. wrote seeking a piece for The Composing Stick, a newspaper for the May 2 fair, which the President was to attend [MTP].