June 24 Thursday – At 23 Tedworth Square in London, Sam wrote to James Gordon Bennett, Jr. in Paris, France, thinking that his letter of June 19 failed to reach him (he learned on June 25 that it had not; see letter that day to H.H. Rogers). Sam repeated his request to “close the subscription list” made for his relief [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Percy Mitchell of the Herald bureau in Paris, enclosing “the substance of that letter,” the one he’d sent to Bennett and the NY Herald to announce he wished the relief fund closed and refunded to givers. Sam asked if Mitchell would cable it to NY immediately [MTP]. Note: Sam’s letter appeared in the NY Herald on June 27 [MTHHR 289n1]. It also ran in the July 3 issue of The Critic [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Second Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1978 p. 170].

The New York Herald announced the fund for Mark Twain now stood at $2,601.65—a figure which must have underwhelmed Sam, since Andrew Carnegie and the paper had started the fund with a thousand each [J. Kaplan 349].

James R. Clemens likely visited Sam in the evening [June 25 to James R. Clemens].