October 5 Saturday – Sam wrote from London To Charles Dudley Warner, all about the toast he’d given at the Sheriff’s Dinner. Sam was surprised at the reception received when his name was announced. He claimed to be “No. 75 in a list of 250 guests,” and the only name to receive a “spontaneous welcome,” that “completely knocked” him out. “I didn’t know I was a lion,” he wrote [MTL 5: 191-2].

Sam also wrote to George H. Fitzgibbon who wrote an article for the Darlington Northern Echo, and sent it to Sam. Sam sent one of the Watkins photographs he’d had made shortly after his arrival [MTL 5: 193-5].

The London Graphic ran a large engraved picture of Sam that was later copied by Hearth & Home [MTP].