October 13 Monday – Sam gave his “Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands” lecture at Queen’s Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, London at 8 PM [Baetzhold 17]. Lorch points out that this was “the most fashionable [hall] in London, instead of the more popular Egyptian Hall where Artemus Ward had lectured…unquestionably made at Mark Twain’s request” [139].

Sam wrote to George Bentley (1828-1895) head of the London publishers Richard Bentley & Son. Sam had called several times on Bentley to confirm his use or the return of the “Jumping Frog in French” sketch, but was unsuccessful in finding him in [MTL 5: 454].