October 4 Thursday – At Brown’s Hotel in London, England Sam wrote to James B. Pond about Samuel Moffett’s editing of Pond’s proposed book:

“I don’t doubt that between you & Sam Moffett you will get the matter arranged all right & satisfactorily.

You always mean right, you old criminal. I am bound to concede that, anyway” [MTP].

The New York Herald, p. 3: “Mark Twain Returns after Nine Years,” announced his departure from London on Saturday, and quoted him about his lumbago and on his opinion of England [MTCI 345-6].