June 17 Saturday – Sam’s notebook reveals the Clemenses travel:

Saturday, left at 2.30 p.m., went to Bologna in 3 hours. Stopped over Sunday in Hotel Brun, an old palace with beautiful ceilings & mosaic floors. Fearfully noisy all night. Leaning towers [NB 33 TS 18].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam to clarify one point from his June 16 letter — an attempt to explain the difference between the $66,600.71 loaned the firm by Sam and Livy and the $75,720.44 credit on the ledger account. Sam underlined and made a few terse notes on the letter [MTP].