March 19 Thursday – Susy Clemens’ 24th birthday. Sam’s notebook recorded the event:

Mch. 19. Susy’s birthday — 24 yr old. [“And we did not know it was to be her last,” added later in ink.]

Lunch with the Lieut-Governor of the Punjab. Lent us his elephant — one of them. “Four days with H.C. Fanshawe, Secretary to Government, & his niece, Miss Fanshawe. Mr. Hurry, his Asst.” [NB 36 TS 57-8]. Note: though Sam and Carlyle made a side trip to Rawalpindi, the ladies were in Lahore these four days, Mar. 18-22.

At 9:30 p.m. Sam Gave his “At Home” (No. 2) lecture at the Railway Theatre in Lahore. The Lahore Civil and Military Gazette published a review of this and the Mar. 18 lecture on Mar. 20 [Ahluwalia 19].