September – Sometime during the month, Sir John Bennett (1814-1897) wrote Sam, enclosing Anthony Trollope’s calling card [MTP].
The first of Sam’s two visits to the Doré Gallery, London [MTL 5: 614-21].
August 31 Saturday – The Scotia reached Liverpool [MTL 5: 152n3].
In Hartford, Hatch & Tyler delivered coal to the Clemens home [MTP].
August 30 Friday – The Scotia reached Queenstown, Ireland at 8 AM. Sam sent a telegraph to Livy [MTL 5: 152n3].
Livy paid Flower & Hills, grocers $7.05 [MTP].
August 29 Thursday – Sam wrote from the SS Scotia, en route to Liverpool, England, to Livy. Sam missed her already [MTL 5: 151].
August 21 Wednesday – Sam departed New York, bound for England on the Scotia. Bills paid to Putnam Phalanx Market, grocers $5.43; to T.S. Daniels for oats, etc. $4.80 [MTP].
August 20 Tuesday – Sam wrote from New York to Livy, after buying exchange for some English gold coins, buying a hat and books for the trip. Charley Langdon and wife Ida arrived at the hotel late. Charley brought two boxes of cigars from Theodore Crane for Sam. Sam wrote he was going to dinner with “the Harper’s Drawer man & Will M. Carleton the farm-ballad writer.” William A.
August 19 Monday – Sam wrote poetically from Hartford to Livy, still in Saybrook, Conn.
August 18 Sunday – Sam left Saybrook for Hartford, where he probably spent the night [MTL 5: 149n1].
August 16 Friday – Sam telegraphed from Saybrook Point to Mollie Clemens: “Send down all my white pants” [MTL 5: 147]. Note: even then, Sam liked to wear white, though while Livy was alive, only in season.