July 29 Wednesday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Frances Nunnally in London, England.

Dear Francesca—

Your letter arrived to-day with picture of Interlaken. What an architectural transformation! There’s nothing of the former Interlaken left but the Jûngfraû.

I am sorry you did not catch my daughter in; & she was sorry, too. She was more fortunate with Dorothy Butes, who found her at home.

You sail Sept. 12, & will reach New York the 20th. So I shall keep the succeeding days open & the guest-room ready for you & your mother, up to the 26th, when a couple of Bermuda friends will arrive. I hope you will occupy the room those several days. I wish I could invite your father, too, but there is only one other good guest-room & it will not be furnished until October, when we give up the New York house.

This place is easier to reach than Tuxedo, there being no river to cross. You will not mind the journey of one hour & 43 minutes. Good train. Pullman car.

With a good deal of love to you, dear, & Kindest regards to your mother— … [MTP; MTAq 189].

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  “The King says that he lives more in an hour here, than he can live in a week any where else” [MTP: IVL TS 55].

William Read wrote from Columbia Falls, Montana to Sam, wondering if Clemens had been the author of “a little newspaper story…clipped from the ‘Virginia City Enterprise’ and was entitled ‘Wind Puddings’”. The story of a tramp begging breakfast [MTP].