March 27 Monday – In Budapest, Hungary, Sam sent an aphorism to an unidentified person:“It is not easy for us to bear prosperity. (Another man’s, I mean.) / Truly Yours / Mark Twain / March 27, 1899” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Bertha von Suttner to decline an invitation (not extant) of some sort. He was booked only for one engagement in April and after that he would take a holiday for the season [MTP].

Elizabeth Bacon Custer wrote to Sam, grateful for a check she’d rec’d on the anniversary of her wedding day. “I do not know how to tell you with what surprise and gratitude I have received these evidences of your determination to rise above the common business methods of the world in general” [MTP]. Note: One of the Webster debts that Sam was working off was to Mrs. Custer.