February 24 Monday – At 9:30 p.m. Sam gave another lecture at the Mohamed Bagh Club in Lucknow, India [Ahwaluia 17]. This lecture was reported in the Allahabad Pioneer on Feb. 26 [23].
February 23 Sunday – Sam’s notebook in Lucknow:
Drove with Major and Mrs. Aylmer (16th Lancers) & Capt. & Mrs. Dallas, in the regimental drag (4 horses) over the whole of Colin Campbell’s March, & also out to the Imam Bara….[NB 36 TS 50-1].
February 22 Saturday – Lucknow, India. Sam was “all over” the Residency ruins with “young” Stirling. Sam gave his No. 1 “At Home” lecture at the Mahomed Bagh Club at 9:30 p.m. The Allahabad Pioneer of Feb. 28 reported “the house being crowded, and the great humorist’s lecture was received with hearty applause from start to finish” [Ahwaluia 17].
February 21 Friday – The Clemens party left Benares for Lucknow, some 261 miles. Sam’s notebook:
Feb. 21. Left for Lucknow about 1 p.m., hot as the nation, the flat plains the color of pale dust, & the dust flying. Tiffin [lunch] at 2, at Jawnpur City. No doubt all those native grayheads remember the Mutiny [NB 36 TS 49-50].
Parson writes,
February 20 Thursday – A travel day. Sam and Smythe left Muzaffarpur at 1 a.m. on the train. At 5 a.m. they took a boat and landed near Dinapur, then traveled on to Benares. Sam’s notebook suggests Livy and Clara took a train from Calcutta to meet the pair, as they had not left with them on Feb. 18.
February 19 Wednesday – The Clemens party arrived in Muzaffarpur at noon. He gave his lecture at 9:30 p.m. Sam’s notebook:
Mr. Hall’s bungalow — indigo planter…slept all afternoon.
Talked at 9:30 p.m.; had a supper for a dozen in the same club, went in evening dress & took train at 1 a.m. [NB 36 TS 50].
February 18 Tuesday – Sam and Carlyle Smythe arrived back in Calcutta at 11 a.m. At 2 p.m., at the Continental Hotel, Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers, having just received his Jan. 9 letter (not extant).
February 17 Monday – The fog cleared and Sam got a good view of the Himalayas and of Mt. Kinchinjunga, 28,146 feet. As he was being accompanied to the railroad station to leave Darjeeling, Sam said of the view, “I intended to tell the many people in Calcutta, who told me of the grandeur of the snows, that I had seen them, whether I had or not. I am glad to be saved the pain of telling a lie” [Parsons “MT India” 89-90].
Sam’s notebook:
February 16 Sunday – Clara Clemens remembered:
February 15 Saturday – Livy described a 9 a.m. breakfast set for them on the train [Feb. 16 to Jean]. Sam wrote of the trip to Darjeeling: