June 21 Saturday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Muriel M. Pears, mostly about the Juggernaut Club of females he had never met. Did she “want to see the Constitution Laws of my Club of which you are the Member for Scotland?” He added family plans and a political bit.

We are leaving, now, to spend the summer in the little town of York Harbor, Maine. I was expecting to come to England in August & meet my eldest daughter (who is on the Continent) & fetch her home; but she has elected to sail from Genoa—so that is off, & I am to have that pleasantest of all things, an unbroken vacation.

Your war is over—that is the best news the year has furnished thus far; & you have closed with the Boers in a fine & magnanimous way—Lord send we may do as well by the Filipinos! [MTP]. Note: the Clemenses would leave on June 24 for York Harbor, Maine.

Henry Wise, Superintendent of Bacnotan Public Schools, the Philippines, wrote to Sam. He had sent a request some months before asking for copies of RI and FE, with autograph on the flyleaf; he was willing to pay $10. It would seem Sam mixed up his replies, as evidenced by Wise quoting his reply: “Your guess was right. Hannibal was the place—& the cave three miles below” If this was a joke Wise didn’t think it was funny as it was “not so labeled”—he didn’t care about the cave or to guess about it, only the books [MTP]. Note: See Jan-Mar entry to unidentified for this mystery.