November 5 Tuesday – Sam attended the opening of the New Guildhall Library and Museum. Sam wrote from the Langham Hotel in London at midnight to Henry Lee. “I sail in first steamer after Lord Mayor’s dinner on Nov. 9, & return with my family in April, to spend the summer” [MTL 5: 214]. Note: he actually sailed on Nov. 12.

Clemens sent an announcement to at least three London newspapers that he was called home but would return with his family and:

“…be able to lecture a month during the autumn upon such scientific topics as I know least about, & may consequently feel least trammeled in dilating upon” [MTL 5: 215].