October 5 Monday – The planned day to leave Ouchy-Laussane for Berlin. According to Rodney, the family made this long trip in two days, stopping at Basel, Switzerland [138] and then Frankfurt, where Sam telegraphed Chatto & Windus on Oct. 7.

Katy Leary was sent back to Elmira in order to save money. She wrote of the parting:

“Well, after Switzerland, the family went to Berlin for the winter, and I came back to America — the first time I ever left them. They didn’t want me to come home but I felt they could get along without me and it would save money. Mrs. Clemens thought maybe the girls were getting so big they could pack for themselves, and as they didn’t have much money then, I thought they could get along without me. They were going to live in one place all winter and I told Mrs. Clemens I’d come back any time they wanted me. Mrs. Clemens thought it would be a good thing if the girls took care of themselves — get used to packing twenty-five trunks!…

“So I went home to America, and they went to Berlin. I went back to Elmira and begun to work as I used to before I went to Hartford. I began sewing again by the day for Mrs. Fassett” [Lawton 123].