October 19 Sunday – Sam wrote from Room 113 at the Langham in London to Charles Warren Stoddard, who had arrived in England on Oct. 13 as a roving-reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Sam hired Stoddard to keep clippings from the London Standard of the Tichborne Clamaint trial, a scandalous mess of the day, which fascinated because of Lampton family claims of royalty [MTL 5: 456].