March 5 Monday – In New York on Players Club stationery, Sam wrote a short note to H.H. Rogers, that Bram Stoker had paid the first installment of $100 on 20 shares of the new Paige Compositor Co.; he’d forgot to receipt Stoker; Also Henry Irving had paid his $500 in full and was receipted [MTP].

Sam inscribed a copy of The American Claimant to an unidentified person: With the best regards of Mark Twain, March 5, 1894 [MTP: Parke-Bernet Galleries catalogs May 18, 1971 Item 175].