July 6 Tuesday – At 23 Tedworth Square in London, Sam telegraphed to James B. Pond “Make it 9 tomorrow” [MTP]. Note: In his July 7 to Moffett, Sam wrote, “Yesterday [July 6] I arranged with Pond to go home & lecture all the fall & winter—provided your aunt Livy should consent.” This makes it likely that Pond and Sam exchanged more communiqués and did not meet at 9 a.m. on July 7, but sometime on this day, July 6.

Sam’s notebook for July 7: “Yesterday Pond offered me $50,000 & all expenses for 125 nights on the platform in America. Mrs. Clemens is not quite willing, & I suppose I shall not accept” [NB 41 TS 43-4].

Jessie E. MacDonald wrote from Edinburgh, Scotland to Sam, documenting his love for Mark Twain books since his boyhood, and commiserating with his loss of Susy, and reminding “that the world is the happier and better for having known you” [MTP]