September 2 Friday – In Bad Nauheim Sam wrote to his brother Orion.

Tear up the letter I wrote [not extant] about the salve, it might go astray & get into print some day.

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]. Note: Sam enclosed the PS to Depew about the Aug. 25 dinner party with the Prince of Wales.