May 25 Friday – In Paris Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers, wondering if the two Rogers girls had gone home, because there was no sign of them and they were not at the Hotel Victoria in London. He repeated that he would take the family to Aix-les-Bains toward the end of June, then sail back from Southampton. If by chance the newest Paige typesetter was completed, would Rogers please cable him in care of Drexel, Paris. Sam wondered if it wouldn’t be a “good scheme” to pay Paige a year’s salary in advance:

He is not half improvident enough these days. Confound him I am afraid he is trying to reform [MTHHR 56-7].