February 22 Monday – At the Hotel Royal in Berlin, Sam wrote to E.A. Reynolds Ball, an English travel writer. Sam belatedly thanked Ball for sending a book (probably Mediterranean Winter Resorts 1888):

I am just out of bed after a 38-days’ illness, and am ordered to the Riviera for restoration. Meantime your book has arrived, and furnishes me just the information I needed…” [MTP from paraphrase of Christie’s East, Sept. 27, 1995 item 7]. Note: Sam likely had sought information on healthful places to settle for the next two or three years.