November 28 Saturday Sam’s notebook for this day:

Nov.  28. Yesterday Livy saw a clearly defined but ghostly picture of the dwelling on the corner next below us hanging high in the heavens, & called all the house but me to see the “mirage.” I said I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. We could have raised the 5,000,000 of London to look at it; stopped all traffic & cost the world a million dollars in 5 minutes — the effects would be felt commercially to the utmost corners of the globe & the pockets of 100,000,000 would be affected by it. So she was glad I missed it [NB 39 TS 27].