May 21 Thursday – In Johannesburg, S. Africa Sam finished a letter to Livy he began May 20.

Livy darling, your dear letters are arriving now & glad am I to get them. It is noon, & I am not yet dressed or shaved. I got to bed (from a lovely supper given to Smythe & me by the theatre manager at one oclock this morning & slept like a log until eleven. Am refreshed. I was dreading lecture No.3. But it came out just as handsomely as the others [MTP].

Sam gave his No. 1 “At Home” lecture at Standard Theatre. The Johannesburg Times ran a review on May 22 [Philippon 16]. 

Livy wrote to Susan Crane that the pineapples were “the most delicious I ever ate”; the bananas “not so rich as ours.” She added that Sam had an interview with president Paul Kruger the following day [MTP].