February 12 Tuesday – At 169 rue de l’Université in Paris Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.
More Mental Telegraphy. About the end of January I wrote and asked Stanley for the name and address of his Australian lecture-agent, and he told me R.S. Smythe, Melbourne. So I wrote Smythe nine days ago — and got a letter from him from Melbourne last night answering my questions! There — how’s that! It is true that his letter left Melbourne Dec. 17 and went to America and then back to Paris — still it was odd that he should take a notion to write me just about the time that I was going to write him. I hadn’t thought of Australia away back there in December…
Sam repeated he would sail “11 days hence,” or on Feb. 23 [MTHHR 130-1]. Partial letter; ending lost.
Sam also wrote to Henry Loomis Nelson, the new editor of Harper’s Weekly.
Oh, but I did intend to write for the Weekly; but I never happened to strike a subject that seemed suitable. I believe I have written only two miscellaneous things since then — a skit at Bourget & a small tale, & neither of those seemed suitable.
Sam disclosed he’d be in New York around Mar. 2 or 3 and then Nelson might “knock out” a subject for him to write on [MTP].