August 12 Friday – At the Hotel Kaiserhof in Bad Nauheim (which Sam called “Bath No Harm”), Sam answered a letter (not extant) from Laurence Hutton, who was planning some traveling.

But what are your plans before you go to Egypt & Japan & those other neighboring places? You better come & give me a call here. The doctor will not let you see Mrs. Clemens, but there’s the rest of us & you can have all of us that you want. Come — won’t you? I have been writing with all my might on a book latterly, but if you’ll come I’ll give myself a holiday [MTP].

John Horan wrote from Rathkeal, Ireland to Sam, noting an extract from HF and one from P&P both about the way a woman threads a needle versus a man; Horan was a “humble admirer” who wanted to know “what is exactly to be understood from the extracts”? [MTP].