November 3 Friday – In London, Sam wrote to Mrs. Keenan

Your letter has given me very great pleasure, & I wish to thank you for taking the time and trouble to write it.

I had half a notion to put Huck & Tom into the Spanish war, but I was so slow about it that the war was over before I got them in.

You have made me a little homesick in speaking of our house—which two members of the family have not seen in 9 years, & I but once in that time—but the exile will end in the spring, I think, & then we shall see it. / Sincerely… [MTP]. Note: the lady is not further identified, but seems to have had a Hartford connection.

Charles Warren Stoddard, Sam’s old friend from Sandwich Island days and his London secretary in 1873 wrote from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. to Sam. “My friends, the Denslows, are so anxious to have you order their new books—‘Father Goose’—and to get a line from you. Just a line” [MTP]. Note: Father Goose; His Book by Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919), illustrated by William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915); see Gribben 185.