May 21 Thursday – In Johannesburg, S. Africa Sam finished a letter to Livy he began May 20.
Livy darling, your dear letters are arriving now & glad am I to get them. It is noon, & I am not yet dressed or shaved. I got to bed (from a lovely supper given to Smythe & me by the theatre manager at one oclock this morning & slept like a log until eleven. Am refreshed. I was dreading lecture No.3. But it came out just as handsomely as the others [MTP].
Sam gave his No. 1 “At Home” lecture at Standard Theatre. The Johannesburg Times ran a review on May 22 [Philippon 16].
Livy wrote to Susan Crane that the pineapples were “the most delicious I ever ate”; the bananas “not so rich as ours.” She added that Sam had an interview with president Paul Kruger the following day [MTP].
Thursday, May 21, 1896— Johannesburg
Letters: To Livy at noon, not yet dressed or shaved after waking at 11 a.m.; from Livy to Susan L. Crane
Performance: “At Home” (4, 8), Standard Theatre; repetition of first Johannesburg “At Home”; golden arm technique, Johannesburg Times, May 22
Newspapers: “Grand American Night,” Johannesburg Times; Paul Kruger has “a full set” of MT’s works, Transvaal Advertiser
Accommodations: Grand National Hotel
[see Philippon, 2002]