June 11 Thursday – At sea, Sam’s notebook entry:

June 11. The loneliness of a ship at 4 a.m. Saw just one person for an instant flit through the gray of yesterday’s dawn. Very rough — winds singing — first wet deck. Electrics seemed to burn dim. Smoking sty stunk unenduringly. …Susy: “Their gesticulations are so out of proportion to what they are saying.”

Smooth sea again.
Jean, positively comfortable. 
Clara, compara[tively comfortable] 
Susy, superlatively un[comfortable].

Know a new voyager because he don’t re-set his watch [3: 643].

Sam received $2,500 from the McClure Syndicate as first installment on serialization of The American Claimant, though it had been agreed he was to receive $10,000 upon delivery of the MS and the balance when the story had been half published [MTNJ 3: 632n215].

Henry Romeike, N.Y. solicited Sam with a form letter to clip notices for him [MTP].