November 24 Monday – Sam wrote from London to Livy.

“Dolby is the same jolly good fellow, & says heaps of pleasant things about you & Clara—among the rest that you, in face & nature & everything, are the most perfect woman he ever saw or knew—which is simply what any one would say, & so it does not surprise me.”

Sam described theatrical performances at Oxford: the students brought pups and let them roam around the stage; they would not bear long piano recitals without talking to the pianist and asking questions and traipsing across the stage to talk to friends on the other side and “borrow” their pups [MTL 5: 483].

Sam also wrote to Henry Lee:

Dear Lee—

      I’m going to that Scotch dinner the 29th (Mr. Reid’s guest) & so you’ll go too, won’t you?

      I don’t know where it is to be. Will you come by for me And if you can’t, will you let me know where it is to be, & what hour it is to come off? / Ys Ever / Clemens [MTP, drop-in letters].

In Hartford, E.P. & Wm. Kellogg receipted Livy for “1 rustic & box” $2.50 [MTP].