March 29 Thursday – Bainbridge Colby for Stern & Rushmore Attys. wrote acknowledging receipt of Sam’s Mar. 19 letter, and that he’d been expecting the original assignment document “of your various property interests to your wife,” and if it did not come soon, he would cable a reminder [MTP].

Sir Francis DeWinton wrote from London to Sam, glad that he could come and that Henry M. Stanley would “also turn up….We will dine at 7.15 at the United Service Club in Pall Mall, at the bottom of Waterloo Place. It is a most respectable establishment made of up Old sailors & soldiers. Then after dinner we’ll smoke and chat or we’ll go to Toole’s Theatre as he wants to give us a bow.” The dinner was set for Apr. 6. 

Joe Twichell began a fifteen-page (half size) letter to Sam, that he finished on Apr. 5. Joe was pleased that Sam had “an angle of vision on” Walter Phelps. Joe had always liked Phelps; had known him for 33 years. “Isn’t he a lad of fluid speech though?” Joe also wrote of attending a New Haven Yale-Harvard debate where he made a speech, and of Chauncey Depew presiding. Joe didn’t like making speeches, waiting his turn, etc. He confided that “the old Naval Surgeon is dead.” [MTP]. Note: in his Feb. 2, 1892 letter to Sam, Joe referred to Dr. Martin as “the old Naval Surgeon.”