July 1 Friday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.
Sam’s notebook: “I cannot reproduce Livy’s face in my mind’s eye—I was never in my life able to reproduce a face. It is a curious infirmity—& now at last I realize it as a calamity / [Horiz. Line separator] / Passed Gibraltar in the fog, 1.a.m. It is a slow ship” [NB 47 TS 15; MTB 1222 in part]. Note: the 1 a.m. would have been July 2.
Chatto & Windus sent a statement of S.L. Clemens’ account, totaling £121.6 to July 1 [MTP].
Bryan M. Clemens in St. Louis, Mo. wrote a letter of condolence to Sam [MTP].
Senator Odoardo Luchini of Florence wrote to Sam that he preferred to write in Italian, sure that his daughters would translate accurately. He continued to look into matters about the Countess Masiglia with Senator Barsanti [MTP].