June 5 Monday – In his June 6 to Rogers, Sam related showing Frank Bliss’ Canvassing book on the deluxe Uniform Edition to Andrew Chatto “a day or two ago”, “& he was vastly taken with it, & wants to put 1000 on the English market for me at 10% commission. I have asked Bliss what he will charge me for the volumes— suggesting cost, or thereabouts” [Note: more likely been a business day than a Sunday]. See also Apr. 25 to Chatto.

Woolgar & Roberts, a press cutting & general information agency wrote soliciting Sam. They enclosed three clippings with essentially the same notice of Mark Twain arriving in London from various English newspapers, the Glasgow Evening News, the Western Mail (Cardiff), and the Manchester Chronicle—all June 3 notices [MTP]. Note: such companies often approached him wherever he lived.