August 2 Friday – Sam and Joe took a short excursion (6 miles) to the popular Altes Schloss (Favorita Schloss), a conspicuous ruin on the summit of a hill outside town. Sam’s notebook holds an entry paraphrasing a guide book, that:

“…no tourist should fail to climb the mountain & enjoy the view. Hired boy to climb the Mt & examine (or enjoy?) the view. He felt well repaid for all his trouble.”

Later in the day they walked back through the woods to Baden Baden. Sam noted that “G P R James’s ‘Heidelberg’ is rot,” referring to George Payne Rainsford James’ (1799-1860) 1846 melodramatic novel about 17th Century Heidelberg [MTNJ 2: 47, 126].