November 13 Friday – In London Sam sent a clipping and short request to Chatto & Windus asking for a copy of A Sketch of the Natural History of Australia (1896) by F.G. Aflalo [MTP]. See Gribben 12.

In the evening Sam also wrote to Andrew Chatto Jr.

Dear Mr. Chatto junior:

You know about bicycles & I and my daughters don’t. We are going up into Regent street to lay in a couple for family use.

Sam wanted to call on the boy to “get the benefit of” his judgment [MTP]. Note: This note and the one to Stoker about the theater tickets reveal that the Clemens girls were quicker to come out of mourning than their parents.‡ Harnsberger (p.171) writes that Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, acting together in London, sent passes for the Clemens girls to use.