July 20 Sunday – The Clemens family arrived in London in the morning. Sam wrote in his notebook that the family arrived in London at 8 AM; that it was rainy and cold. They stayed at the Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover Square. “Have had a rousing big cannel-coal fire blazing away in the grate all day. A remarkable summer, truly.” Sam added notes to send the “girl near Haarlem” [Fraulein Korthals] a book, and to “Ask Chatto what terms he gives for new book;” and about Harte’s copyright on Ah Sin play “to be turned over” to him. He then wrote a list of things to do and get. To do:

“Ask if Conway’s in town…Am engaged to dine (but not on set days,) till go to Condover. Go tailor shop…Bank. Write Dr Jno Brown. Note to Bierstadt (Langham). Go to Conway’s [To get:] Cigars. Whiskey. Umbrella” [MTNJ 2: 333-4]. Note: Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).

Livy wrote to her mother:

“Doesn’t that address sound (or look) as if we were nearing home? We reached here this morning having crossed the channel in the night” [MTNJ 2: 289].