October 1 Thursday ca. – On or about this day a portion of a letter Sam sent to Orion appeared in the Keokuk Gate City; it survives in scrapbook 20 at the MTP:

When I reached here from South Africa on the first of August I was expecting to lecture a while in London, then in other cities of England, Ireland & Scotland, then lecture a year in America, for I had grown used to the work & no longer minded it, but the unspeakable bereavement which has befallen me in Susie’s death has necessarily quenched all desire to continue on the platform. I shall not lecture anywhere this fall or winter [MTP].