August 13 Saturday – At the Hotel Kaiserhof in Bad Nauheim, Sam answered a letter (not extant) from Augustin Daly.

I have your letter of June 28, from Chicago. It followed me here — no, beat me here a day or two, for I was in Chicago myself when you wrote it — spent the 28th there under a fictitious name, & left the 29th.

I shall be here another month, yet, then go to Florence to stay a year; so as you are to be in London the 25th we shan’t meet, I suppose. However, you bang away & dramatize the book your way, & that will be my way. Mr. Hall has already written you accepting your offer for me [MTP]. Note: The play was The American Claimant.