May 18 Friday – Sam’s notebook: “Miss Chomondeley—lunch. / Meyer’s lecture Frederic William Myers.—& dine at Stanley’s. / RELIEF of Mafeking. The news came at 9.17 p.m. Before 10 all London was in the streets, gone mad with joy. By then the news was all over the American continent” [NB 43 TS 11]. Note: the siege of Mafeking was a famous British action in the second Boer War. The siege was finally lifted on May 17, 1900, when British forces commanded by Colonel B.T. Mahon of the army of Lord Roberts relieved the town after fighting their way in.

At 30 Wellington Court in London, Sam wrote to Mollie Clemens.

Allowing for difference in longitudinal time, your “premonition” of May 6 of “something out of the usual, and good”—for us—scored a bull’seye. For two days earlier—May 4th—Jean turned the corner— passed the main crisis & entered the home stretch for ultimate restoration to health….

We were making arrangements to go home; we have stopped them, & shall remain with Kellgren until October, & shall summer in Sweden again [MTP].