June 27 Friday – The Kanawha docked in York Harbor, Maine, and the Clemenses took possession of their cottage, “The Pines,” so named because it stood in pines. Sam sent a telegram to H.H. Rogers:

“Housed and home by noon a perfectly lovely voyage / SLC” [MTHHR 489].

Livy wrote to Susan Crane of the place.

We are in the midst of pines. They come up right about us, and the house is so high and the roots of the trees are so far below the veranda that we are right in the branches. We drove over to call on Mr. and Mrs. Howells. The drive was most beautiful, and never in my life have I seen such a variety of wild flowers in so short a space [MTB 1176].

Sam also wrote to Paul Kester [MTP]. Text not available.

Sam read Harry Leon Wilson’s book, The Spenders; A Tale of the Third Generation (1902) [June 28 to Wilson].