November 3 Sunday – In London Sam wrote to James Redpath.

“I am revamping, polishing & otherwise fixing up my lecture on Roughing It & think I will deliver it in London a couple of times about a month from now, just for fun.”

Sam also asked for news of Bret Harte, not knowing about Redpath and Harte’s very public breakup over Harte’s failures to show for scheduled lectures [MTL 5: 208].

Sam also wrote a short note to W.A. Turner, turning down some sort of invitation. Turner is unidentified [MTL 5: 212].

Sam also wrote to his sister-in-law, Susan Crane.

“If you & Theodore will come over here in the Spring with Livy & me & spend the Summer, you shall see a country that is so beautiful that you will be obliged to believe in fairy-land;—there is nothing like it elsewhere on the globe” [MTP, drop-in letters].