November 24 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “Flagg, 10.30. / Lunch with Brander, 681 West End Ave / Big tea Gabrilowitch. / Billiards—night—Mr. Rogers” [NB 43 TS 30].

According to Sam’s Nov. 21 note to Rogers (and above NB entry) Sam played billiards with H.H. Rogers and Dr. Clarence C. Rice at Rogers’ home this evening.

The New York Times, p.6, ran an announcement of an English lecturer whom Mark Twain would introduce on Dec. 12:

LIEUT. CHURCHILL TO LECTURE.

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Mark Twain Will Preside at His First Appearance Here.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P., recently with the British Army in the Transvaal, is to lecture 100 times in America. His first appearance will be in the Waldorf-Astoria on Dec. 12, after which he will make a tour of the country under the management of Major J. B. Pond. Mark Twain has consented to act as presiding officer at the meeting which Lieut. Churchill is to address in the Waldorf-Astoria. The subject of the address will be “The War as I Saw It.”

Lieut. Churchill is the son of Lady Randolph Churchill. He is first cousin to the Duke of Marlborough. While an officer in the Transvaal the Lieutenant was the correspondent of The London Daily Mail, and since his return from the war he has been lecturing in England. He will sail for this country on Dec. 1.