October 11 Saturday – A brief notice in the Court Journal (London), in full:

Mark Twain proposes to allay all excitement and interest in the Sandwich Island difficulty by lecturing on it, declaring that he has always been able to paralyse the interest in any public subject by lecturing on it. Would that other distinguished lecturers would sum themselves up with like pleasing candor! We are only sorry to hear that Mark delays his departure for America a week to do this thing [Tenney, Supplement American Literary Realism, Autumn 1981 p161].