March 13 Friday – At 7 p.m. in Jaipur at the Kaiser-i-Hind Hotel, Sam wrote another notice to Mr. Bickers, the station master, that this time they would really leave for Delhi the following evening (Mar. 14). He didn’t anticipate another change of plans but if there were he would notify. Significantly, he listed Livy and Clara, along with himself and Carlyle G. Smythe as passengers, so that his earlier thought of leaving the ladies in Jaipur was now changed. He listed Kaiser-i-Hind Hotel above the date, which was likely the hotel they stayed in during their long siege [MTP]. Note: they actually left on Mar. 15. The Lahore Civil & Military Gazette reported (Mar. 13) that Mark Twain had recovered from his “indisposition” and would give his “At Home” lecture in Lahore on Mar. 18 at 9:30p.m. and the following day at 5:30 p.m. (later changed to 9:30 p.m.) [Ahluwalia 18].

The New York Times p.1 ran a short article datelined Mar. 12 London, “Mark Twain Seriously Ill.” On Mar. 15 they ran another p.1 notice, “Mark Twain’s Illness Not So Serious.”