May 22 Tuesday – Sam made a brief stop at the Edison Phonograph Company on Dey Street in New York, but did not find Edison in. He “spent an hour & a half with the phonograph on Dey street, with vast satisfaction” [May 21 and 25 to Edison]. Sam badly wanted to obtain a phonograph to dictate his writing (see May 25).

William H. Thompson for Equitable Life Society wrote: “I sat by your side at a dinner given by our mutual friend Cholmondeley of Condover Hall, England. The dinner was given him at the Windsor Hotel, New York in 1887 after his arrival on the Steam Ship Britannic under my command” [MTP].