June 12 Wednesday – H.H. Rogers replied from Vichy, France to Sam, likely to his May 29 from Tuxedo Park. He’d rec’d Sam’s letter and thought they would meet in London as he was also invited by Lancaster of Liverpool to the Pilgrim’s Luncheon. Rogers family’s plans were to go to Paris on June 19 and to London on June 23, then on to Liverpool on June 27 and sail from Queenstown the next day. He announced if Sam wished to return with them they’d be delighted: “The only essentials this time will be drunkenness, profanity and sodomy” [MTP]. 

He also wrote about the upcoming Jamestown event:

That Jamestown show will come off as arranged. You and Cleveland and Harry are welcome to everything but if you take on board that fakir from Washington I’ll have him dumped from a Water Closet. Where better dung is made. You remember Rice’s yard about the Cheese and what was on it [MTHHR 627]. Note: fakir was likely T. Roosevelt. Interestingly, Roosevelt had referred to William Joseph Long, nature author, as the “nature fakir” [Gribben 419]; Sam was likely playing off of T.R.’s label.

Calverto’s Entertainment Bureau, Glasgow, Scotland wrote to solicit “a short lecture tour” [MTP].

Lillie Planner asked if Clemens could “spare a few minutes” to talk with “a young woman journalist” whom he had met some years before when she was 12 [MTP].

Emilie R. Rogers replied to Sam’s letter to H.H. Rogers, that he would be glad to see Sam “even if it be for a short time, in London,” as he expected to be there the evening of the 23rd and they would stay at Claridge’s [MTP].