August 7 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Lang’s Hotel in Heidelberg to Livy. He’d received her note and thanked her.

“We have had a long & most enjoyable day in a carriage up to Hirschhorn & back with Smith” [MTLE 3: 76].

(Edward Meigs Smith) is the full name given in the Aug. 20 letter to Frank Bliss.) The travelers spent the day in Heidelberg, with Sam noting a church there with a partition—one side Catholic, the other Protestant [MTNJ 2: 130].

Theodore W. Crane for Langdon & Co. wrote to Sam on Charles E. Perkins to Crane Aug. 4 letter: “Will you advise Mr Perkins what your wishes are—nothing new—all well except Andrew’s Mother who is very sick. Yours…”  [MTP]. Note: Perkins did not want to “take the responsibility of acting” for Clemens in the matter of Slote & Co. owing.