April 16 Monday – The Clemens family were at Henry M. Stanley’s country place in Surrey, the last of a “few days’ visit” [Apr. 17 to James].
Basil (Canon) Wilberforce wrote to Sam asking if he would give the Joan of Arc talk before 90 people in his drawing-room on Wednesday, May 30 [MTP]. Note: Fatout lists a reading for May 30.
April 15 Sunday – The Clemens family were at Henry M. Stanley’s country place in Surrey.
Insert: Furze Hill, Stanley’s Country Home
April 14 Saturday – The Clemens family were at Henry M. Stanley’s country place in Surrey.
Jonas Henrick Kellgren Osteopath, billed £10.10.0 for 25 visits to Apr. 14 for Jean’s treatments [1900 Financial file MTP].
Furze Hill (or Furzehill) is a hamlet situated in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley. Its nearest town is Fordingbridge, which lies approximately 3.1 miles (5.2 km) north-west from the hamlet.
Country Home of Henry M. Stanley.
April 12 Thursday – In London, England Sam wrote to George B. Harvey, sending a table of contents for the proposed London and Tauchnitz editions of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories. Sam wrote he’d “knocked out 42,000 words & left 130,000—an over-abundance still,” and gave Harvey, the new President of Harper & Brothers, permission to “knock out anything you want; & leave in anything you please” [MTP]. Note: the letter written on old Chatto & Windus letterhead.
April 11 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook: “Made Director” [NB 43 TS 8]. Note: of the Plasmon Syndicate.
Paul Kester replied to Sam’s Mar. 24 suggestions:
April 10 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Dillingham, Savoy, dinner, 7.30. / Marda. / She Stoops to Conquer. / Invite Doubleday & wife here to tea” [NB 43 TS 8].
Note: this entry was written & struck through on Apr. 7. Sam noted Oliver Goldsmiths’ (1728-1774) play, She Stoops to Conquer. Gribben speculates “conceivably he saw a performance of it around that time in London”
April 9 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “Canon Wilberforce / both of us—1.30. / J. Ross Clemens, / Bath Club, 7.30, 24 Dover / Ward the artist—sit for portrait” [NB 43 TS 6b].
At 30 Wellington Court in London, England, Sam finished his Apr. 8 to H.H. Rogers:
P.S., April 9. Mrs. Clemens is greatly troubled about that Plasmon-cure, and wants me to write you and tell you to boil it before using….
April 8 Sunday – In London, England Sam began a letter to H.H. Rogers that he added a long PS to on April 9. Samuel S. McClure was trying to interest Sam in editing a new magazine; Sam referred the matter to Rogers.
McClure wrote, some weeks ago, that there was nothing lacking but an understanding in written detail of what my duties were to be—then he would lay the contract before you. I said go ahead, there’s no hurry, & when his contract was ready, carry it to you.
April 7 Saturday
At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to C.F. Moberly Bell, editor of the London Times:
Although you are going out of town I want this note to catch you & thank you for accommodating the A.P. representative with an early proof. But for that he would have been delayed 5 or 6 hours.