November 20 Wednesday – In Munich, Sam wrote letters to Joe Twichell and Susan Warner. Sam had lost his Switzerland notebook and wrote that if it remained lost he wouldn’t try to write the volume of travels he’d planned. He’d rented another work room a mile from their quarters and would “tackle some other subject.” He had nothing but great things to say about the Fraülein and her “very best cookery.” They had tried and failed to see the Boyesens, who had been in Munich for ten days and were leaving. He asked Susie Warner’s help in choosing ten tunes for a music box he had ordered. He’d chosen four: The Lorelei, the Miserère from Trovatore, the Wedding March from Lohengrin, & the Russian National Anthem, but was stuck for any others.  

Sam also wrote to an unidentified person in Geneva, sending thirteen francs on the matter of “trying to get those clocks into the United States without the loss of life.” Sam had forgotten the name of the clock merchant and requested that the person furnish the required paperwork, evidently for customs [MTLE 3: 93].

From Livy’s pen:

The children have gone out with Rosa and their governess to try on their little dark dresses. Susy’s is to be dark brown and Clara’s dark blue trimmed with red….I like the way that the children’s teacher begins and I hope she will prove to be just what we desire—they have begun their reading lessons this morning. I hope by Spring they will read German as well as they speak it [Salsbury 90].