September 30 Saturday – In his Oct. 1 to Franklin G. Whitmore, Sam detailed the Clemens’ family arrival in London:

We reached here from Sweden yesterday evening [Sept. 30] at 5.20; put in 45 minutes at the station trying to get hold of a porter; 50 minutes outside the station waiting while a man & a youth hunted for two 4-wheelers; then got one & a hansom; took 45 minutes to drive to the hotel. Thus, after arriving it took us 2 hours & 20 minutes to get to the hotel [MTP]. Note: the hotel referred to was Queen Anne Residential Mansions & hotel; the family would be billed from Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 and pay on Oct. 12.

James Henry Wiggin (1836-1900), Unitarian minister of Roxbury, Mass. wrote to Sam via Rogers’ office; Katharine I. Harrison forwarded it on with a short note added on Oct. 3. Wiggin had been one of the paid editors of Mary Baker Eddy’s MS, and described “wading through” Mrs. Eddy’s “extraordinary sentences” which he had to “lick into shape”; but he declined to bore Sam with long descriptions of “behind the scenes in Christian Science” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “Mrs. Eddy’s publisher”

Note: Sam replied on Oct. 12. Mary Morse Baker Eddy (1821-1910), wrote Science and Health (1875)—or did she? It was Sam’s position that she could not have. She did organize the First Church of Christ Scientist in 1879 and the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in 1881. Sam’s book on Christian Science would not be issued until 1907. Wiggin had revised the entire sixteenth edition of Baker’s Science and Health, adding a chapter of his own, “Wayside Thoughts”; the popularity of the volume dated from his revision.