July 7 Monday – Anthony Trollope threw a dinner party in honor of Joaquin Miller. Sam attended, as well as Thomas Hughes; Edward Levy, editor of the London Telegraph; Granville George Levenson-Gower, the second Earl Granville and leader of the House of Lords; and Edward Levy [MTL 5: 406-7n11].

Sam wrote from the Langham to Elisha Bliss that he’d “finally concluded not to go to Paris.” Sam directed Bliss to take the Herald letters and put them with an enclosed article about the “Jumping Frog in French” and sell them as a pamphlet [MTL 5: 409].

Moncure Conway wrote to Sam.

My dear Clements, /On the eve of the glorious and never-to-be-disremembered-or-underestimated day when we are to visit Hepworth, the birthplace of a great man, I take pleasure in writing that if tomorrow you will meet me at the great railway Station Paddington at two o’clock p. m. (I put in the p. m. lest in your morning enjoyments in the role of ‘early bird’ you should step in at 2 a. m. Do not.)—at 2 p. m. precisely it will be well with us. Our train leaves at a quarter of an hour later: we go by way of Oxford and Honeybourne (a bourne at which Mrs. C. might naturally stop, but must not), and will soon be clasped in the arms of Mr. Charles [Flower] who will meet us at the Station. / Thine / M D Conway / [MTPO].