July 23 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Heidelberg to Chatto & Windus, publishers, about money matters. He also requested a copy of Ouida’s Friendship, bound in full dark blue morocco [MTLE 3: 72].

The Clemens family traveled by rail to Baden Baden, Germany, staying in the Hotel de France [MTNJ 2: 47, 109n123]. Sam remembered the hotel as a “plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel” in chapter 21 of A Tramp Abroad. The medicinal baths in Baden Baden were probably an inducement for the move.

Sam’s notebook:

“Only 18. M.[arks] for large parlor & 2 large chambers on 1st floor, Hotel de France

Music at 7 AM & from 4 PM till late toward about 10 or 11. Very fine” [MTNJ 2: 118].