July 11 Wednesday –At Dollis Hill House in London, England Sam wrote to Brander Matthews.

My souls, I’m glad to see you!

But look here—I’m to come in to London & dine with my old friend J.Y.W. MacAlister (20 Hanover Square) & he is inviting Bronson Howard.

Can’t I come after dinner to the Savile Club, & fetch MacA. With me, & have a smoke? [MTP].

Note: the proposed dinner date is not clear. Bronson Howard (1842-1908), a popular American dramatist who had collaborated with Brander Matthews in 1899 in Peter Stuyvesant. Howard had homes in both American and London. See NB entry for July 13; Howard mentioned.

Sam’s notebook: “Joh. Baer, sen. in Wildstein bei Eger Bohemia / Strumpfwaaren Fabrik. / Stories of Animals. Let the cat talk to me. Took me a while to learn her language” [NB 43 TS 22].