November 21 Tuesday – In London, England Sam wrote to Joe Twichell.

The enclosed is from a very beautiful American woman 34 years old, who was never out of Chicago until she was 16. She knows no language under the sun, but can chatter glibly & fascinatingly in six; & when she is talking she is obliged to draw upon her whole battery, & does it; & even then she can seldom pull herself past the middle of a sentence, but finishes it with the cunningest gestures, shrugs, smirks & grimaces, (borrowed from 5 of those nationalities) which sometimes convey her meaning but as a rule they don’t…. After an hour of her fireworks you feel dazed, & impotent, & all whirly, & you haven’t an idea in the world of what she has been talking about [MTP]. Note: the enclosed from an unidentified beauty is not extant, but may exist in Twichell’s papers at Yale. The two men often enclosed clippings and articles and letters which they felt would interest the other.