March 18 Sunday – The New York Times, p. 14 reprinted a short letter from Sam to the London Anti-vivisection Society of London:
“Mark Twain” on Sport and Vivisection.
From the London Times.
March 17 Saturday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to John Y. MacAlister, entirely about Harper & Brothers plans to make two books out of his assorted sketches. MacAlister was editor of the Library in London, as well as being a principal in the Plasmon schemes, so may have had some interest in publishing a few of Mark Twain’s sketches. Or, Sam may have considered him a valued advisor in sorting out the complications of British copyright, simultaning, magazine articles, etc.
March 16 Friday – Jonas Henrick Kellgren Osteopath, billed £12.12.0 for March 7 through March 16 for Jean’s treatments [1900 Financial file MTP].
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].