January 30 Saturday – At 23 Tedworth Square in London, Sam wrote to Ainsworth R. Spofford at the Library of Congress, Wash. D.C., making formal application for copyright renewal of IA, [MTP]. Note: He may have done this not certain that Bliss would perform in time.

Speaker included an anonymous review of TS,D p.135. “Brief and appreciative: not up to TS ,but good [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 185].

Sam’s notebook:

Saturday, Jan 30/97. The pedestal of the bronze be-ruffled Charles I is well clothed in wreaths of white flowers, with mottoes,—this is a lament by irreconcilable English “legitimists,” to commemorate what they think was a calamity—the beheading of Charles Jan 21, 1649—they celebrate tomorrow, (that apparently standing for Jan 21 O.S.) Charles’ back is toward Nelson in the sky on his column-top, he looks down Whitehall, past the palace where he was executed & past the Horse-Guards & Downing street, political executive centre of the vast British Empire—& his bronze glance strikes the great tower of the Parliament; further down—the legislative centre of the B.E.

In Hartford there is a family of American donkeys who shut themselves up Jan. 21 & snivel over Charles’s death. I suppose there are people who would regret Satan if they could attract any attention by it. Those Americans are Episcopals [NB 41 TS 7-8].