February 22 Saturday – Sam wrote from Washington, D.C. to Mollie Clemens about his book contract and that he expected to go with Anson Burlingame on the Chinese Embassy trip, once he left for Europe [MTL 2: 198-9].

Sam also wrote to William C. Church, an editor of the Galaxy, complaining of an unpublished article he’d submitted which had not been returned. about this date Sam telegraphed the Alta for permission to reuse his 50 Holy Land letters [MTL 2: 200-1].

Sam gave a variation of his “Sandwich Islands” lecture to the Ladies’ Union Benevolent Society, Forrest Hall, Georgetown. The newspapers announced the lecture a “pleasing success,” with the audience in “almost continuous roars of laughter” [Lorch 73]. Fatout reports a full house, with Sam “entirely at ease” [Circuit 86].