January 29 Monday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to Felix Volkhovsky (1846 -1914). Many opponents of the Russian Czar fled Russia for the refuge of Britain. Volkhovsky fled from Siberia and settled in west London, where his home became a meeting place for a community of Russian émigrés. Stults calls Volkhovsky “the most prominent Russian émigré after Stepniak’s death in 1896”, a contributor to Free Russia, the paper of the Friends of Russian Freedom in England [Russian Review, “George Kennan: Russian Specialist of the 1890s” July 1970 p. 275-85]. Evidently Sam was either invited to one of these gatherings, or to write in support of the Russian cause:

“It breaks my heart to say no, but I have to do it. I have to say it with great frequency & fortitude, & stand by it & stick to it; otherwise I should get further behind with my contracts than I already am—& I am dishearteningly far behind” [MTP].