June 10 Saturday – At the Prince of Wales Hotel in London, Sam wrote to Douglas B. Sladen.

Thank you, I am your man. Make it a fortnight or three weeks off, as you suggest, & give me the date so that I may make sure that it doesn’t double-up on some other engagement [MTP]. Note: Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1856-1947), travel writer, poet, author, scholar, and editor of Who’s Who between 1897-1899. He lived in Melbourne, Australia for a number of years, where his uncle, Sir Charles Sladen, had been premier of Victoria. He returned to London in 1884. Sladen collected all the correspondence he had with interesting and prominent people of his time into 70 scrapbooks. Many of the letters were from well known literary and political figures.

Sam’s notebook: “Sat. 10 Lord Salisbury’s party” [NB 40 TS 56]. Note: Lord Salisbury (1830-1903), whose full handle was Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, lived and died at Hatfield House, a structure completed in 1611. Fatout lists as London, “speech or story” with no further particulars [MT Speaking 666].