August 2 Thursday – Sam was in Hartford visiting old friends and staying with the Whitmores. He mentioned seeing Susy Warner on this day in his Aug. 3 to daughter Clara. Susy Warner “praised Mrs. Wilson’s character & her abilities as teacher & composer.” Clara was staying with Mrs. Wilson in Canton of Uri, Switzerland, and planned to teach there with her after the family returned to America.

Sam returned to New York in the evening, and described an incident the next day to Franklin G. Whitmore:

Yesterday evening [Aug. 2], ten minutes after we left you we met the City of Richmond above the drawbridge; I was in the pilot house & I saw Ruth waving her hat at people she supposed to be you & her mother, from the hurricane deck abaft the port paddle-box. I wasn’t able to get her attention [MTP].