August 11 Sunday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Sam began a letter to Dorothy Quick he finished on Aug. 15.

This isn’t a letter, Dorothy dear, yet I know I ought to write you a letter, because I would write you every time I wrote the other children, & I’ve just finished a letter to Clara. But I never could keep promises very well. However, I shall certainly write you a letter before very long. I wrote to Clara:

“When Dorothy went away she took the sun & the moon & the constellations with her, & left silence & solitude & night & desolation behind her.” 

And that’s a true word, if ever I’ve spoken a true word! [MTAq 51].

Baron Ludwig Wattman, German author, wrote to Sam that he would be living on Madison Ave. [MTP]. note: Lyon wrote on the letter: “answd. Aug 14, ‘07”; MTP gives “on or after Aug. 11” for Sam’s reply “the house at 21 Fifth Avenue is closed.”