July 14 Thursday – On or about this day the SS. Lahn reached Bremen. Shortly, Sam continued on to Bad Nauheim to rejoin Livy.
August 5, At the Kaiserhof Hotel in Bad Nauheim, Germany, Sam wrote of ... a bit of traveling the past few days, without specifics,
August 15 Monday – On this day or the next, the family took a trip to Frankfort On the Main, Germany, a short seventeen miles to the south from Bad Nauheim [Aug 9 to Ross].
August 16 Tuesday – The Clemens family was in Frankfort on the Main, Germany. Crane]
August 17 Wednesday – The Clemens family was in Frankfort on the Main, Germany.
August 19 Friday – The Twichells arrived in Bad Nauheim for a visit [Aug. 23 to Orion].
August 20 Saturday – Sam and Joe Twichell went to Homburg, which Sam called “the great pleasure resort,”
August 21 Sunday –
..in the morning I went walking in the promenade & met the British Ambassador to the Court of Berlin, & he introduced me to the Prince of Wales, & I found him a most unusually comfortable & unembarrassing Englishman to talk with — quick to see the obscurest point, & equipped with a laugh which is spontaneous & catching [MTP; Aug. 23 to Orion]. Note: Victoria and Albert’s son, the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII.
Sam and Joe Twichell returned to Bad Nauheim later this day [Aug. 22 to Depew].
August 25 Thursday – Sam’s notebook revealed he returned to Homburg: Came to Homburg per 12.20 tr.[ain] — distance, about 30 or 40 min. / Dined at the Kiersaal with Sir Charles Hall, to meet the Prince of Wales.
August 27 Saturday – In Bad Nauheim
September 2 Friday – In Bad Nauheim Sam wrote to his brother Orion.
We are in check-mate here. In no apparent danger, but we dasn’t move in any direction. We can’t take Clara to Berlin, for there have been two or three cholera deaths there, & there may be more; our road to Italy is blocked by quarantines, & if it wasn’t we shouldn’t start yet, for we should not want to be in Florence if the cholera is going to enter there — & it may, at any moment. So we are now under the double expense, indefinitely — the house & servants in Florence & our keep here in the hotel [MTP].
September 10 Saturday – In their last day at Bad Nauheim,
September 11 Sunday – The Clemens family was in Frankfurt, Germany.
September 15 Thursday – The Clemens family left Frankfurt, headed for Lucerne, Switzerland