July 11 Saturday – At Quarry Farm in Elmira, N.Y. Sam wrote to Hélène Elisabeth Picard.
“I thank you, with enthusiasm, for the moving & beautiful Joan pictures. They are a delight to the eye & an exaltation to the spirit. Thank you again!”
Sam then related the trip from Riverdale to Elmira and gave Livy’s status since arriving:
The Madam is gaining daily. She spends the whole day on the front porch (a good part of it sitting up in a chair), reading or enjoying the wide view of valley & town & the receding panorama of Pennsylvanian hills. (Here the summer weather is imported from Heaven.)
Good-by, dear France; I must go & help her pass the time [MTP: “Mark Twain’s Private Girls’ Club,” Ladies’ Home Journal , 1912, p.54].
Sam’s notebook: “Meeting with P of W at Homburg” [NB 46 TS 21]. Note: Sam’s recollection of the Prince of Wales may have had some relevance at this time, but exactly what is unclear