March 11 Sunday – In London, England Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers:
Dear Mr. Rogers:
In bank here- – – – – $5,000
Due from Harper, May 1 – – 3,000
Edinburg, April 1 – – 3,000
Chatto (de luxe ed.) – 10,000 (but not all payable till Sept.)
Prospectively due from Bliss,
Harper, Chatto (old books) & Edinburg by next October, say– 12,000
$33,000
March 10 Saturday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to John Y. MacAlister.
I will ask you to send Mr. Heinberg to Lord George Hamilton’s nearest friend with this proposition: That we deliver in Calcutta or Bombay, carriage free, 2,500,000 pounds of Plasmon per month to end of the famine for £50,000.
The which will furnish to each individual, big & little, of the famine stricken, the equivalent of ½ pound of best beefsteak per day at cost of one shilling per month of 31 days [MTP].
March 9 Friday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam replied to Chester Sanders Lord (1850-1933), a founder of Lotos Club and managing editor of the N.Y. Sun since 1880. Evidently Lord invited him upon his return to America a banquet (Lord’s not extant).
I accept that Lotos complimentary dinner with loud & long-continued applause.
March 8 Thursday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote and declined an invitation to a festival by the City Liberal Club Chairman and Committee, London. Sam repeated the reason given to others during this period that his work could not presently be interrupted [MTP: Christie’s East Catalog, 14 May 1997, Item 89].
March 7 Wednesday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to John Y. MacAlister . The four paragraphs deal with prospective buying and selling Plasmon at a profit, and mixing it with Bovril. Samuel Bergheim is mentioned [MTP]. Note: Bovril is a trade name for a salty meat extract developed in 1870. Samuel Bergheim (d.1904) is identified as the managing director of the Plasmon Co., London [ MTHHR 442n2]. On Jan.
March 6 Tuesday – Jonas Henrick Kellgren Osteopath, billed £12.12.0 for Mar. 1 through Mar. 6 for Jean’s treatments [1900 Financial file MTP].
March 5 Monday
March 4 Sunday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to Joe Twichell.
March 3 Saturday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam gave a reading of a paper before the Copyright Committee of the House of Lords, arguing that perpetual copyright be given to authors.
He then wrote to C.F. Moberly Bell, editor of the London Times, asking for a copy of the reading for the Associated Press to cable to America [MTP].
March 2 Friday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam and Clara Clemens wrote to Mildred (Pilla) Howells, sending their approval and pride at her poem “The Particular Princess: An up to date Fairy Story,” which appeared in Feb. 17 issue p.144-5 of Harper’s Bazaar—Sam “choking up…& just damming away with a father pride…” and Clara “dammingly chokingly chucklingly sparkingly add my signature to the above”[MTP].