December 29 Wednesday – Sam lectured (“Savages”)  in Opera House, Newark, N.J. [MTL 3: 416].

 “An Indignant Rebuke,” an unsigned article attributed to Sam, was printed in the Buffalo Express [McCullough 120].

The Boston Evening Transcript ran a letter by Sam about pretentious Americans, returning from Europe:

To use their pet and beloved expression, they were a ‘nahsty’ family of American snobs, and there ought to be a law against allowing such to go to Europe and misrepresent the nation. It will take these insects five years now, to get done turning up their noses at everything American, and make damaging comparisons between their own country and ‘Yurrup.’ Let us pity their waiting friends in Boston in their affliction [Vogelback, “Contributor” 111].