January 20 Monday – In Bombay, Sam’s notebook [NB 36 TS 20]:

Been shut up all the time with this infernal cough. It does not improve. I wish I was in hell.

Parsons writes,

One comfort was that Livy and Clara could go out sightseeing for him. As Mark told a newsman, “My wife and daughter overwhelm me with the fascinations of Bombay.” From his window to the large balcony door and then to the rail, the stay-at-home moved closer to the passing show. From his balcony, just two days after his arrival, he was peering across the road at the spectacle under shade trees of a “juggler in his turban…with his snakes and his magic.” And always there was a flow of life, an incessant play of color. “Bombay! A bewitching place, a bewildering place, an enchanting place” [“MT India” 76].