August 10 Saturday – In the morning the men explored Dilsburg Castle [Rodney 103]. Sam and Joe started back to Baden Baden by train. They took a swift raft ride of the lower river to Heidelberg, plowing the raft into a bridge [103]. “Blazing hot in train.” They stopped at Friedrich. From Sam’s notebook:

“Took a bath at Friedrich. In Evening to bed early, with the new home magazines [July Harper’s, and Atlantic] which I had saved all day & wouldn’t cut a leaf. Twichell the ass, writes & goes to the music. I lie & smoke & am wise” [MTNJ 2: 134].

In Heidelberg, Sam purchased George Eliot’s (1819-1880) Ramola (1863) [Gribben 218].

An unsigned article titled, “Mark Twain at Home” ran in Leisure Hour. It was a brief description of an interview with Mark Twain, noting “the excellency of his literary taste” and calls him “a constitutional humorist,” in his perspective on any topic [Tenney 8].