September 22 Sunday – Sam wrote from London to Livy that he was “making tolerably fair progress” sightseeing and collecting notes for a book.

“This is no worn out field. I can write up some of these things in a more different way than they have been written before” [MTL 5: 169].

He’d had a “very good time” at the Savage Club. Sam sent a postcard and an autographed manuscript of his speech to Moncure D. Conway (1832-1907), an American journalist [MTL 5: 171-2]. Note: Conway had been a long time friend of W.D. Howells.