May 16 Monday – Sam’s notebook in Venice:

Monday, May 16, took Antonio the gondolier at 7 francs a day.

Smoking party Monday 8.30 to 12 p.m. at Horatio Brown’s, 559 Zattere (Ca. Torresella) [NB 31 TS 46].

† – Susy Clemens wrote to Louise Brownell of the trip and the first few days in Venice, which she called “this strangest of strange places,” and that they’d arrived Saturday (estimated here as May 14).

We got into Venice by moonlight between eleven and twelve at night [Sat. May 14]. Last night [May 15] we were all up late on the Grand Canal hearing the serenade. Tonight’s program is the same — all day the military music and the serenadors have kept passing up and down….Clara will go back to Berlin and Moskowski in the Fall and this will keep us separated all winter [Cotton 101147-8].