November 11 Saturday – In London, England Sam replied to E. Duncan Lucas that he’d forgotten “what the project was,” but if Lucas would call between 4 and 4:30 nearly any day he would see. Sam provided Chatto’s address and warned: “Show this card, or Chatto will tell you I have gone to the continent—& it will not be true” [MTP].
Sam also wrote to an unidentified man and used his Wellington Court address.
Before November 10 Friday – In London, England Sam wrote two notes to Poultney Bigelow. The first agreeing to walk at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 10. The second a P.S. “Too bad! Clara is to perform with [Blanche] Marchesi Friday eve the 10th. I had forgotten it. I’ve got to be there” [MTP].
November 10 Friday – In London, England Sam replied to H.F. Gordon Forbes, whose incoming letter is not extant, but the subject was politics and the Boer War:
November 9 Thursday – In London, England Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.
November 8 Wednesday – In London, England Sam wrote to Dr. Sullivan, declining “an almost unresistable temptation” to appear at a club function, for he was a “bond slave to Fitzgerald’s Omar”. He didn’t want his name to appear in the papers while he was “doing the hermit act.” He thanked Mr. Walker for the invitation and Sullivan for conveying it. He also mentioned Livy, his family, and Dr. Jonas Henrick Kellgren:
November 7 Tuesday – Sam wrote to his sister, Pamela A. Moffett:
It was really very kind of Dr. Steele to invent Osteopathy after Kellgren (the actual inventor of it) had already been curing all kinds of diseases with it when Dr. Steele was in his cradle cutting his teeth.
November 6 Monday – Sam restarted his osteopathy treatments at Kellgren’s facility [Nov. 9 to Rogers].
Joe Twichell wrote from Hartford to Sam.
November 4 Saturday – In London, England Sam replied to James M. Tuohy of the N.Y. World, who evidently sent payment for Sam’s “Lie” article. He enclosed the receipt and responded that he didn’t believe he “could write on those subjects—& anyway, I mustn’t; because I must punch myself up & bang along with my regular work” [MTP]. See Oct. 30.
November 3 Friday – In London, Sam wrote to Mrs. Keenan
Your letter has given me very great pleasure, & I wish to thank you for taking the time and trouble to write it.
I had half a notion to put Huck & Tom into the Spanish war, but I was so slow about it that the war was over before I got them in.
November 2 Thursday – In London, England Sam wrote an aphorism to an unidentified person: “It is not best that we use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sundays. / Truly Yours/ Mark Twain. Nov. 2/99” [MTP].
November 1 Wednesday – In London, England Sam replied to Edward Everett Hale’s note of Oct. 11. Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister; Nathan Hale, Revolutionary hero executed by the British was his great uncle. Edward had written Sam about his article on Christian Science.
I thank you ever so much for your note.