June 17 Saturday – In London, England, Livy wrote to Bram Stoker.

Thank you so much for the box at the Lyceum which has safely reached me. I’m greatly antisapating next Monday evening. / I had such a pleasant time with you on Thursday [MTP].

Sam’s notebook : “Sat. 17 Wilberforce, 1.30; 20 Dean’s Yard” [NB 40 TS 56]. Note: in his June 14 NB entry Sam crossed out “Canon Wilberforce, lunch.” See July 3 entry. Fatout lists this as “remarks” given [MT Speaking 666].

Academy (London), p.648, ran a brief comment on “Mark Twain’s graceful, natural way of accepting the praise given him and his works” [Tenney 30].

An anonymous article, “The Humor of Mark Twain,” ran in Spectator, p.861. Tenney: “A letter to the editor: finds the report of his Authors’ Club speech ‘on Monday night’ [12 Jun] uninspiring. For an example of of ‘one of his happiest flights of humour, ‘furnishes the text (here printed) of a ‘speech made at a United Veterans’ Banquet at Baltimore many years ago’” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Second Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1978 p. 171].