February 26 Wednesday – In Kanpur, India the Clemens party was the guests of Lt. Col. P. Baddeley and visited more sites connected with the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Sam accepted an invitation, expecting to be in Meerut on Mar. 3 [Ahluwalia 17].

Sam wrote in Kanpur to an unidentified man:

My wife & daughter & I thank you very much for your kind invitation, & are very glad to accept it.

I am not quite sure of our date at Meerut, but I think it is the 3d, & that we are only there one day.

Sam promised to get the date from Carlyle G. Smythe and wire the man [MTP].