June 14 after – In London, sometime after Sam wrote he was “afraid to venture to the Savage,” MacAlister took him there. The club voted him an honorary lifetime member. Paine writes,

His book finished, Clemens went out rather more freely, and one evening allowed MacAlister to take him around to the Savage Club. There happened to be a majority of the club committee present, and on motion Mark Twain was elected an honorary life member. There were but three others on whom this distinction had been conferred—Stanley, Nansen, and the Prince of Wales. When they told Mark Twain this he said:

“Well, it must make the Prince feel mighty fine” [MTB 1041 and n1, citing Sam’s NB].