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[[File:1894-11-17-lotos-club-menu-signed-by-arthur-conan-doyle.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Original Lotos Club menu signed by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]].]]

On 17 november 1894, a dinner was given at the Lotos Club (New York) in honor of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] during his lecture tour in USA.


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== Attendees ==

* President of the Club : Frank R. Lawrence
* Speakers : 
** [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. A. Conan Doyle]]
** Chester S. Lord
** Harrison P. Wallice
** S. C. James
** Edward Patterson
** Abram S. Hewitt
** William H. McElroy
** Bartow S. Weeks
** J. Seaver Page
** Seth Low
** Bourke Cockran
** David Christie Murray
** [[John Ines Hay Doyle|Lieutenant Hay Doyle]] (Conan Doyle's brother)
* Presents:
** E. B. Harper
** O. G. Smith
** George T. Foster
** Julius Chambers
** Frederick Pennington
** Randolph Guggenheimer
** R. S. Ramson
** J. W. Vrooman
** Jerome E. Morse
** A. S. Goodwin
** George H. Wooster
** Dr. W. W. Walker
** Dr. C. I. Pardee
** R. M. Phillips
** L. L. Seaman
** Horace See
** J. H. Sprague
** J. H. Cowperthwait


== Conan Doyle speech ==

''Report from The Times''

"You are hedged in with romance on every side," he said. "I can take a morning train in this city of New-York, I can pass up the historic and beautiful Hudson, and I can dine at Schenectady, where the Huron and Canadian did such bloody work. I feel keenly the romance of Europe; I love the memory of the shattered castle and the crumbling abbey; but to me the romance of the red-skin and trapper be more vivid, as being more recent.

"It is so piquant also" the doctor added, "to stay in a comfortable inn, where you can have your hair dressed by a barber at the same place where a century ago you might have been left with no hair to dress."

He spoke of the romance of the city, and said that a man who could look upon it and return over the seas with only a sneer for its wonders and charms was either hard-hearted or soft-headed.



== Full Report ==

* [[Entertaining Dr. Doyle]] (17 november 1894, [[New-York Tribune]])






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