June 18 Saturday – Sam was en route to New York City on the Havel. Livy wrote from Bad Nauheim:

Youth Darling: Your two letters mailed at Southhampton reached me safely and were I assure you very welcome. I had last night a kind of horror in the night — lest something would happen to you. But as a rule I feel very contented and happy about everything. It seems to me that except for our delightful stay on the Riviera I have never in my life had so restful and quiet a time. The books have come from Chatto & Windus. I am enjoying now the Venice and the Hagues are reading the other. In fact in the evenings we read aloud in them [The Twainian Jan-Feb 1977 p.3].