July 6 Friday – Sam’s notebook: “Plasmon—important meeting—Duke st. noon. / Lady Seton, 8 pm. / Clandestine meeting of the Savage Club. / By rule, Chair not allowed to speak. It is a good rule, & I will not transgress it. CLOTHES. / I am a farmer now with hay & sheep” [NB 43 TS 20-21].

At Dollis Hill House in London, England Sam telegrammed to Richard W. Gilder: “NOT ABLE TO PROMISE / CLEMENT [sic]” [MTP]. Note: On July 17 Gilder wrote he got this telegram before leaving London. Sam followed this with a letter two days later. See July 8.

The Savage Club telephoned Sam and invited him to perhaps the last Saturday dinner of the season on the next day, July 7. Sam was “delighted” to accept [Watson 130]. Note: NB above calls this a “clandestine” meeting. NB of July 7 reveals speakers and their subjects.