June 29 Friday – In La Bourboule, France Sam cabled H.H. Rogers: “Unavoidably Detained,” then wrote him a long letter explaining the delay (see June 27 and 28 for events leading up to the cable and letter). He added to the letter on June 30. The soldiers were gone from the hotel and most of the policemen. Sam wrote about walking to the Hotel de Ville and seeing the ringleaders of the riot, “well-dressed, good looking fellows” about to say goodbye to their “well-dressed peasant families.” The men were to walk 32 miles away, “a sort of banishment,” thought to be brought about by prosecution by the hotel landlord. Sam worried that further trouble would brew from resentment of the landlord.

Sam asked Rogers about putting PW “into the hands of some publisher without waiting longer on the creditors,” and suggested Frank Bliss or “some other subscription house.” He cautioned that it would take “pretty brisk work to get it ready for the fall trade, if it is published by ‘the trade’”. A subscription house could begin taking sales by Oct. 1 and issue by Dec. 1. “An excitement out in the square” interrupted the letter, Sam going to see what it was [MTHHR 67-70].