September 1 Friday – In Sanna, Sweden Sam wrote to Poultney Bigelow.

We are progressing handsomely, and are greatly obliged to you for putting us on the track. I suppose you will be returning to London soon. We shall reach there the last day of this month and may remain till mid-winter or longer. Then I will powerfully discourage the weekly newspaper project unless you can prove that the wear and tear of it will not destroy your health [MTP].

Sam also wrote to James B. Pond, once again nixing an offer to lecture, this time for a thousand a night.

Say! Some time ago I received notice that I had been elected an honorary member of the “Society of Sons of Steerage Immigrants,” & was told that Kipling, Hop Smith & Nelson Page are officers of it. What right have they to belong? Ask Page or Smith about it.

Max made the speech of the evening at the Whitefriars banquet to me, in London [MTP]. Note: See June 16 for the banquet Sam referred to, at which Max O’Rell spoke.