March 26 Monday – London: Sam was free in the daytime for a meeting with John Y. MacAlister [Mar. 23 postcard #2 to MacAlister].

The New York Times, p. 1, ran a squib:

Mark Twain Coming Home Soon.

HARTFORD. March 25.—Letters received from Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) say that he and his family will return soon to Hartford and take up their permanent home there.

Sam’s notebook and also Fatout list an 8 p.m. dinner speech for Mark Twain at the Gilbert Parker Dinner, London [MT Speaking 666]. Note: Gribben points to this event as the date Clemens was introduced to Winston Churchill at the home of Sir Gilbert Parker, British novelist, dramatist, and member of Parliament [526: NB 43 TS 6].