Before November 18 – Sam wrote to his sister Pamela A. Moffett, who then conveyed his news to her son, Sam’s nephew, Samuel E. Moffett on Nov. 18. Sam thought that osteopathy in America was a theft—it had been invented in Europe nearly 40 years before, but he was glad they had the science now for they would spread it around, while in conservative England an osteopath was seen as a quack. He noted that Henrick Kellgren had 17 assistants and charged double what Pamela’s doctor Steele did in Buffalo [MTP].

November 18 Saturday – In London, England Sam wrote to Mrs. Ann W. Denslow (Mrs. William Wallace Denslow), thanking her for a gift of Father Goose; His Book, by Lyman Frank Baum and illustrated by William Wallace Denslow [MTP: G.A. Baker & Co. catalog, 17-18 Sept. 1940; letter printed in the Chicago Tribune of Dec. 18]. Note: Denslow also gave Sam a presentation copy of Denslow’s Mother Goose in 1901 [Gribben 185].

Sam also wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore, enclosing a request to be given to American Publishing Co. for $100. Sam wanted an estimate of each month’s approaching expenses to allow him “a chance to furnish the money to keep that tiresome house going” [MTP].

Academy (London) ran quotations from More Tramps Abroad, (FE), and noted Sam’s lack of sympathy for the Boers [Tenney 30].