June 13 Thursday – The Clemens family arrived at Quarry Farm [July 1 to Pamela]. As he later wrote, “death is on the threshold” — Theodore Crane was nearing the end of his life.

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam about the possibility of a book by Henry M. Stanley, who had been on a two-year mission to Zanzibar to locate and aid Emin Pasha, governor of the Equatorial Province of Egypt. Pasha had retreated in the face of Mahdist insurgents and had urgently sought help from the British government. Stanley’s mission was noteworthy, and Hall remembered that in 1886 he had promised them a book.

[Stanley’s] book is infinitely the largest thing in the wind at present. Would it not be a good idea as soon as his position is located so that a letter would reach him without fail, for you to write him a personal letter reminding him of his partial promise to write a book for us [MTNJ 3: 494n39].

Horace Wall for West End Theatre, N.Y. wrote to Sam inquiring about dramatizing P&P with a little boy he had in mind, thinking that Elsie Leslie was “too weak” for the part [MTP].