July 3 Friday – In Aix-les-Bains Sam wrote again to daughters Susy and Clara in Geneva, with Jean Clemens penning the letter (due to Sam’s rheumatism) and adding a PS asking for them to soak off and save the French stamps for her that came on their letters. Sam wrote of a conversation he’d had with the doctor on Wednesday (July 1) about a rash that everyone had but Sam himself.

I told him “I believed all the family but me were in this condition, but that I hadn’t acquired any suggestion of the distemper. I COULD have told him that the family had been attributing it to bugs and fleas, & that I had been defending the accused on the ground of their non-existance, I basing my position on the fact that mamma spends a part of each day and night in my bed and the rest of it in her own, yet never leaves me a creature behind as a memento. …

Dear hearts if you find gore, that is evidence, if you find a corpse it is proof [MTP].

Ms. C.H. Sandberg wrote from Stockholm, Sweden to Sam, “about to give out an autobiographical work of the humourists of America.” She would be grateful if he would send her “some lines” [MTP].