August 23 Friday – In Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.

I am just out of bed for the first time since I left the ship. The first time we came here there was an interruption near this point which halted the train four hours; this time, at the same place there was another breakdown which caused a still longer halt, & turned an 11-hour trip into a 17-hour journey—& so I reached home at half past 1 in the morning instead of at 7 the previous evening. But that was not the worst of it. The weather was roasting hot, & close & humid, & I arrived with a cold in the head. But it is gone now, after a couple of days in bed.

Sam thanked him for the “most contenting & comfortable & satisfactory pleasure-excursion” on the Kanawha [MTHHR 467-8].