May 6 Sunday – Sam’s notebook: “Lord Russell 2 Cromwell Houses—2 o’clock” [NB 43 TS 9].

May 5 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “Mr. Hapgood” [NB 43 TS 9].

May 4 Friday – Sam’s notebook: “Director Kellgren discovered that Jean has turned the corner & will get well / Dinner—8(?) Moberly Bell, 98 Portland Place” [NB 43 TS 9]. See May 17 to Moffett. MTHHR 445n1

May 3 Thursday – Sam’s notebook: “11 p.m. ball in honor of the King of Sweden & Norway” [NB 43 TS 9].

May 2 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook: “Sent to McClure May 2 Postal-check contains 5,614 words. $825 or $850.7. for 7.30 sharp. / Royal Library Fund Hotel Cecil, (Entrance east wing.) Lord Chief Justice of England. (Earl of Crewe is Lord Houghton’s son)” [NB 43 TS 9].

May 1 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Noon. Plasmon 11 Cornhill. Go down with Mac & Bergheim. / Vote Mac a right to assume the doctor’s stake himself” [NB 43 TS 9].

May – In London, England Sam wrote to Samuel S. McClure. “We shall spend from June 1 till Oct 1 in England. Won’t you please divert the magazine to /Care Chatto & Windus” [MTP].

April 30 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “Never waste a lie, for you never know when you may need one” [NB 43 TS 9].

At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to Lyman J. Gage (1836-1902) concerning his protégé, Florizel Reuter enclosing a copy of his Apr. 28 to Grace Reuter, Florizel’s mother [MTP].

The accompanying copy is what I wrote to Mrs. Reuter. [on Apr. 28]

April 29 Sunday – Sam’s notebook: “Punctuality is the thief of time. / S.L. Clemens interviews Mark Twain.

Subject: What do you think of Interviewers & their trade?” [NB 43 TS 9].

April 28 Saturday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to Grace Reuter, mother of child prodigy on the violin, Florizel Reuter (or von Reuter; 1890-1985) and protégé of Lyman J. Gage (see Apr. 30 to Gage in which this letter was enclosed). Evidently Sam had heard the young fiddler at his parlor some time before this letter, and had been duly impressed.