August – Sam sent his double autograph to an unidentified person:

Yes indeed & with great pleasure / Sincerely Yours / Mark Twain / ~ / Known to the police & these tax-people as / SL Clemens / ~ / Bad-Nauheim, Aug./92.

Sometime between Aug. 1 and 17, Sam answered W.H. Langhorne’s July 26 inquiry as to a possible family relationship based on Sam’s middle name.

I was named Langhorne from a valued friend of my father, but he was not a relative, but a comrade of my father’s youth in Virginia [MTP]. Note: this would run in the London Times on May 5, 1910.

Sue Crane returned home to Elmira sometime prior to Aug. 7, when Sam wrote Charles Langdon of the effects of the parting on Livy. In a letter dated only “August/92,” Susy Clemens mentioned to Louise Brownell, “Aunt Susy has left us to sail home….” She also wrote of a side trip and another guest:

Clara and I have been in Frankfurt visiting friends. While there I saw the Walküri for the first time. I thought the relations between Brünhilde and Sieglinde particularly lovely, and the opera is superb. The Rheingold I didn’t appreciate I am sorry to say.

Except for this little break life goes on with us as regularly as clock work. The events of the day are the arrival of the Homburg coach, and the garden concert in the afternoons. I find that after all I have grown fond of this little place tho’ it is as quiet as the grave. …

A friend of Aunt Susy’s is here and I walk with her every day. She is fine in many ways supports her parents and has educated her sister who is an invalid and looks at life in a morbid hopeless distorted way….In the afternoon we take our books and sewing out to the terrace and listen to the music till dinner time and in the evenings Papa reads us his M.S. [Cotton 101151-3].

Note: from context and Susy’s use of present tense, this friend of Sue Crane’s appears to have stayed on after Sue returned home.