June 17 Wednesday – In Paris, France Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall.

A cablegram informs me that my type-setter sale has fallen through [to Mallory Brothers]. Therefore you will now have to modify your instalment system to meet the emergency of a constipated purse; for if you should need to borrow any more money I would not know how or where to raise it.

Sam also notified Hall that they would leave Paris the next day, June 18 [MTLTP 277]. Note: evidently the family did not leave Paris on June 18 for he wrote Richard Watson Gilder from there on June 19.