Attendees at Lotos Club Dinner in New York, 29 September 1873

[*] indicates speechmaker:

Andrews, William Symes: (1847–1929) pioneer electrical engineer for General Electric.

Appleton, William Henry: (1814–99) president of the publishers Appleton & Company and proponent of international copyright agreements.

*Botta, Vincenzo: (b. 1818) professor of Philosophy from the University of Turin, he settled in New York in 1853 and filled the chair of Italian language and literature of the University of the City of New York.

Bouton, John R.

*Bradlaugh, Charles: (1833–91) British politician, free thinker and radical lecturer who made financially unsuccessful tours of the US in 1874 and 1875.

Brelsford, Charles S.: president of the American Literary Bureau; he was Collins's first manager for his American reading tour.

*Brougham, John: (1810–80) Irish actor and playwright, spending almost fifty years as a theatre professional in England and the US. He was a founder and early president of the Lotos Club.

Campanini, Signor: Italian operatic tenor who toured the US during 1873.

Carleton, Will: (b. 1845) Lyceum lecturer, traveller and author of popular ballads of domestic life, one of which, Farm Ballads, was published in New York in 1873.

Chamberlain, Ivory: American journalist and editorialist for the New York World and the New York Herald.

Chapin, John R.: (1823–1904) designer, painter, illustrator, and engraver, he was noted for his Civil War illustrations and his western scenes.

*Chapin, Dr. Edwin Hubbell: (1814–80), pastor of the Church of Devine Paternity in New York.

Cleveland, Frank F.: (1853–93), president of Union Ironworks.

Conant, Samuel Stilman: (b. 1831), managing editor of Harper's Weekly from 1869 until January 1885 when he mysteriously disappeared.

Croly, David Goodman: (1829–89) Irish-born journalist and radical social thinker who founded the Daily Graphic, the nation's first illustrated daily, in 1873.

Devlin, John E.: New York statesman.

Forest, M. de la: Consul General of France.

Fulton, Chandos: author; wrote A Brown Stone Front in 1873.

Gedney, Frederick G.: Civil Justice and author of Shenandoah.