March 14 Wednesday – about this day Henry Ferguson of Hartford wrote again about the changes he’d requested in the article with his Journals from the Hornet saga.

“There seems to be no end to the trouble that you have brought upon yourself in your kind compliance with my wishes in regard to certain passages in my own and my brother’s journals. I greatly regret that it has been so but it is a great relief to me to have the slight modifications made” [MTP].

March 13 Tuesday – In London, England Sam replied to the Mar. 2 of Rev. F.W. Mortimer:

March 12 Monday – In London, England Sam wrote to Pamela A. Moffett [MTP].

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