March 1 Wednesday – On or about this day Clara Clemens played the lead role in a play at Mrs. Willard’s school for girls in Berlin [Mar. 4 Eagle article — see entry].

March 1-20 Monday – Sometime during this period Sam sent one of his early aphorisms to Constance Lloyd Wilde (Mrs. Oscar Wilde 1858-1898):

Habit is habit; & is not to be flung out of the window by any man, but must be coaxed down stairs a step at a time. / Mark Twain / ~ / Florence, March 1893 [MTP].