July 9 Sunday – In Munich, Sam wrote on Hotel Du Rhin letterhead to Susan Crane that he added a PS to on July 10. Sam asked her to thank Mr. Halsey for “the way he handled” his “small business,” as he’d not had the chance to thank him in purpose during his stay in New York. He commented on Sue’s letter which related a matter “about Judge Smith & the Gonzales folks,” calling it a “comical world.” Note: The Judge Smith matter was perhaps an episode in Elmira. Halsey was the securities agent Sam had used during their European stay.

He then advised her of their plans:

I think we go to Krankenheil-bei-Tölz, in Bavaria next Thursday or Friday, for the baths there. It is a rather shane place and quite shanely situated. The others don’t like it, but I do, & the specialist don’t allow Livy to go anywhere else — a good man, with a shane mind of his own. Livy is improving; I feel much set up about it (Unberufen.) I think she is going to come along, now. / There’s an irruption of chambermaids — I will vacate & give them the room [MTP].

In the evening Sam and daughter Clara went to the opera Tannhäuser [July 10 PS to Crane].