June 17, 1873 Tuesday

June 17 Tuesday – Sam and his secretary Thompson left London and crossed over the channel to Ostend, Belgium to cover the visit of the Shah of Persia, Nasr-ed-Din, the first leader of his country to visit Europe. Sam stayed overnight in Ostend. On this day or the next, Sam wrote from Ostend to John Russell Young, who had been the managing editor of the Tribune prior to Whitelaw Reid, and later founded the New York Standard. He also was the foreign correspondent for the New York Herald, reporting from London and Paris [MTL 5: 383]. The break with Reid over The Gilded Age review led Sam to contribute letters for the Herald over the Tribune.