November 11 Saturday – In London, England Sam replied to E. Duncan Lucas that he’d forgotten “what the project was,” but if Lucas would call between 4 and 4:30 nearly any day he would see. Sam provided Chatto’s address and warned: “Show this card, or Chatto will tell you I have gone to the continent—& it will not be true” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to an unidentified man and used his Wellington Court address.

“The ‘Diary’ has just arrived, & I hasten to thank you in advance for the pleasure in store for me in the reading of it. When you say I inspired you to write it you pay me a compliment…” [MTP].

Sam also wrote a short note to John Y. MacAlister “Sup with you tomorrow night while the outsiders are absent? Mrs. Clemens & I will be there, & shall be very glad. / I dasn’t venture to accept the Medical Society’s invitation, because I’ve got a previous engagement…/ P.S. One of the girls is not very well, the other must stay at home with her” [MTP].

In the evening Clara Clemens gave a vocal performance under the tutelage of Madame Blanche Marchesi; the family attended [Nov. 10 to Bigelow].

The New York Times, p.5, reprinted an article from the St. Louis Republic, “Mark Twain’s Boyhood,” which highlighted Sam’s past and present relationship with his cousin, Mrs. J.W. Greening (“Puss” Quarles) and revealed Sam’s monthly checks to her support.