March 24 Wednesday – At 23 Tedworth Square in London, Sam wrote to American Publishing Co.

correcting his cable address to “Care Bookstore London. / I gave it to you wrong before, I believe” [MTP]. Note: Sam had provided “Bookseller London” as his cable address, to Bliss and to Rogers, which caused Rogers’ Mar. 4 cable to be returned.

Sam also wrote a postcard to John Y. MacAlister, having survived a bout of lumbago, asked him to “come down & have another smoke” [MTP].

A Hartford Courant article, “Boston on Mark Twain” p.6, poked holes in an Atlantic article:

In what would be called a well-written article a contributor to the April “Atlantic” decides that Mark Twain is first: “not a wit,” second, “not a humorist in the true sense,” third, “not a literary artist.” This is rather a serious matter. It is virtually an indictment of the American people, who have decided that a drop of ink from Mark Twain’s pen is worth ten times as much as one from the pen of any other writer….

The truth of the matter is, the writer of the article is a little too near Mark Twain in date to estimate him. Let him wait forty years and he will reverse his decisions. If he does not, posterity will do it for him.