February 2 Tuesday – At 23 Tedworth Square in London, Sam wrote to Horatio David Davies (1842-1912) this year London businessman and politician who became Lord Mayor of London this year. Sam declined to dine on Mar. 2 with the Lord Mayor, “obliged by reason of family affliction to decline”

[MTP]. Note: Sam was still in mourning, or at least avoiding public contact. Davies established Pimms (cocktail) as an international brand name.

Sam also wrote to H.H. Rogers with plans to expand FE from the 180,000 words he’d completed, to two-volumes of 140,000 each, splitting the volume contents by geography, with the second volume beginning with his trip to India. What did Rogers think? The first volume could be ready “at nearly any time, and the other one by the end of May….” Sam also mentioned a letter (not extant) from Orion reporting “Puddnhead had a crowded house in Keokuk & was splendidly played to an enthusiastic house, with several curtain-calls after each act” [MTHHR 263-4].