March 9 Friday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam replied to Chester Sanders Lord (1850-1933), a founder of Lotos Club and managing editor of the N.Y. Sun since 1880. Evidently Lord invited him upon his return to America a banquet (Lord’s not extant).

I accept that Lotos complimentary dinner with loud & long-continued applause.

Our home-coming has no definite date, yet, because we do not know when we can get my daughter out of the doctor’s hands. That is what we are waiting for, & it may keep us here—will keep us here—until summer, I am afraid, & be too late in the season for dinners—the boys would all be out of town cooling off. However, Mr. Rogers will always know our sailing-date several weeks beforehand, & if he fails to telephone you I will discharge him [MTP]. Note: Sam enclosed a photo of himself by Pach Bros. N.Y.

Sam also wrote to John Y. MacAlister, again about mixing Bovril with Plasmon, and a correction on the cost of the former. He announced that John Tatlock of the New York Life, would reach London from Berlin in a week [MTP]. Note: Tatlock was one of the proposed investors in an American Company for the sale of Plasmon.

Sam also wrote to Caspar Whitney (1864-1929), American author, editor, explorer and war correspondent, who at this time was editor-in-chief of the monthly The Outing Magazine, which covered outdoor and sporting subjects as well as adventure fiction. Sam declined to submit a piece of writing as everything he might “write for a year or two is already engaged & the price arranged…Two months ago I was free, but now I am become a chattel” [MTP]. Note: Whitney first came up with the idea of an “All-American” team in college football when working for Harper’s in 1889.