March 28 Tuesday – The Clemens family’s last full day in Budapest, Hungary. On one of their days in Budapest Ferenc Kossuth (1841-1914), leader of the Independence Party in the Hungarian Parliament, called at their hotel. Dolmetsch: “Clemens had heard Lajos Kossuth [Ferenc’s father, a Hungarian hero] lecture in St. Louis in the late 1850s on one of the barnstorming tours of the United States, and like most Americans, the Clemenses venerated this great ‘Champion of Liberty’” [59]. Note: Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) toured the US in 1851-2, and in St. Louis on Mar. 15, 1852 not the late 1850s; as such it is doubtful young Samuel Clemens, who left home in 1853, would have heard Kossuth lecture in St. Louis. No record of Clemens going to St. Louis prior to 1853 has been found.