June 29, 1904 Wednesday

June 29 Wednesday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.

Sam’s notebook: “Sailed last night at 10. The bugle-call to breakfast. I recognized the notes & was distressed. When I heard them last, Livy heard them with me; now they fall upon her ears unheeded. / This ship is the ‘Prince Oscar,’ Hamburg-American” [NB 47 TS 14].

Sam asked the ship’s surgeon for a tonic for Clara [NB 47 TS 15]. Note: Sam complained in his July 5 entry that the doctor then called daily to check on her.

William Winter wrote a letter of condolence to Sam [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the envelope, quoting Winter: “ ‘There must be a life beyond.’ Wm. Winter. Let us hope not.”