June 14 Thursday – Sam’s notebook: “Several boxes of chocolate-cakes. / GOUT. JAP PLAY. / Plasmon 12?”

[NB 43 TS 16]. Note: it seems the Plasmon Co. held regular Thursday meetings.

At 30 Wellington Court in London, Sam wrote to The Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, a scientific group established in 1662.

“Mr. & Mrs. S.L. Clemens accept with pleasure the kind invitation of the President of the Royal Society for Wednesday, June 20th at 9 p.m.” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore.

Yours of the 6th just received [not extant]. It should have been forwarded to me a full month earlier. But I was not expecting to get it in time, & so I wrote Bliss some time ago that if you got over-taken by taxes, to let you have the money….I wish the house would burn down; it is nothing but a fret to me.

We remain in England till October, then go home. We can’t manage to get away any earlier [MTP]. Note:

Sam wrote crossways in the left margin: “We move out in the country 4 miles, July 7.”