June 30 Sunday – Sam arrived in New York and stayed at the St. Nicholas Hotel. He may have gone to Boston during this week to attend the Boston World’s Peace Jubilee and International Music Festival. James R. Osgood & Co. was a major underwriter of the Jubilee. Sam mentioned the Jubilee in one of his letters to the New York Herald in June 1873 [MTL 5: 112].
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