March 1 Sunday – Sam’s MARK TWAIN’S LETTERS FROM WASHINGTON, NUMBER VIII dated Feb. 5 ran in the Enterprise. Sections included: “Office Hunting,” “The Man Who Stopped at Gadsby’s,” “Mrs. Lincoln,” “Felix O’Byrne,” and “Stewart’s Speech” [Schmidt].

Sam’s third LETTER FROM MARK TWAIN, dated Feb. 21 from Washington ran in the Chicago Republican and included: THE ILLINOIS STATE ASSOCIATION; A CHEERFUL GUEST; MORALIZING; LAZARUS IMPEACHMENT, COME FORTH!; THE TWENTY-SECOND OF FEBRUARY; SCENE IN THE CAPITOL; THE CLOSING DEBATE; THE HUNTED CHIEF IN HIS CASTLE; A Sleeping Lion Aroused—Gideon Rampant; and TELEGRAPHIC THUNDER AND LIGHTNING [Schmidt].

Sam’s “Holy Land Excursion. Letter from Mark Twain Number Forty-four” dated Sept. 1867 at “Jerusalem” ran in the Alta California [McKeithan 260-6].