August 14 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Promenade deck each of 2 rooms £85. / Two outside rooms on main deck (no ports) £52 each. / Or, one inside room on that deck, £48. / Maid £15 in place with servants” [NB 43 TS 23]. Note: See Aug. 17 entry.

At Dollis Hill House in London, Sam wrote a brief note to Brander Matthews.

“We-uns are going to be in to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon, & shall look for you-uns & give you glad welcome, & cake & tea in addition thereto” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Mrs. T. Douglas Murray.

Mrs. Clemens has been delaying her answer in the hope that she would be able to make the journey. She thinks she is better, & feels sure she will be better still, to-morrow; so she instructs me to write you that we shall most probably go to you on Thursday—in which case she will telegraph you on that morning naming our train.

Sam declared that he had thus carried out Livy’s instructions, but she was not well and “must not think of railway journeys in this trying weather.” Sam invited the Murray’s out for tea and luncheon or tea and dinner to “enjoy with us the grass & the shade, the fields, the sheep & the flies.” After his signature he reminded her husband he was still waiting for the “old type-written copy of the Joan of Arc Introduction” [MTP].