Lecture at the Lotos Club dinner
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.
Attendees
- President of the Club : Frank R. Lawrence
- Speakers :
- 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
- 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)