March 19 Monday – Susy Clemens’ 22nd birthday.

In Paris, at the Hotel Brighton, Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers, responding to his Mar. 8 letter (he would not yet have received the Mar. 13 letter). Rogers needn’t answer Livy’s Feb. 14 letter, as his response to Sam was answer enough. Sam explained about Franklin G. Whitmore — that he’d paid Hartford bills for him “for the past 8 or 10 years, and is familiar with my small affairs there.” He suggested the simplest way to handle such matters as Whitmore brought to Rogers was to transfer small amounts to the U.S. Bank in Hartford and allow Whitmore to pay bills there by check, never more than $2,000. Whitmore could also receive royalties from the American Publishing Co. there when due. Also, Sam agreed that Fred Hall was best advised to take the $2,500 sublet agreement, rather than waste money waiting for a better offer. Sam also responded to a generous offer of more financial help from Rogers:

I have your kind order on Messrs. Bedford to allow me to draw on you for $1,000, and I thank you very much; but Mrs. Clemens is better off than I supposed, and we shall not need to draw.

If we can get Clara and Jean satisfactorily housed here, Mrs. Clemens and Susy and I will sail for home together in the New York, April 7. I shall come then, anyway [MTHHR 46-7].

Sam also wrote to Bainbridge Colby, letter not extant but referenced in Colby’s Mar. 29 to Sam [MTP].