July 1 Tuesday – Sam’s first of five letters on the Shah of Persia appeared in the New York Herald. The letters were collected as “O’Shah” in Europe and Elsewhere (1923) [MTNJ 1: 537n28]. Sam wrote from the Langham to Moncure Conway. He wrote of his plan to go to Paris to continue writing up the Shah’s visit for the Herald (Sam canceled his plans on July 4), and his inability to go to the Cosmopolitan Club with Moncure. Sam started a second letter to Moncure that he finished the next day [MTL 5: 394-5].

Sam began a letter from the Langham to Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller), who was also in London, somewhat of a “literary lion” there.

“I meant to go to Paris tomorrow, but am relieved of that necessity until next day. Am going to try to get to the Cosmopolitan Club about half past ten or eleven tomorrow eve—if you intend to go there can you come by for me?” [394-5].