July 19 Thursday – H.H. Rogers telegraphed Sam from Washington to ask him to go down to Manhattan Beach with the Rogers family. Sam went down in the afternoon, sleepy and “played out” from the heat that he had to “sit silent” while Cara Rogers Duff and friends talked. After dinner they all went out to watch fireworks.

…and certainly all the fireworks I have ever seen in Europe were trivial & commonplace compared to these. I didn’t know they could do such flaming & gorgeous miracles outside of perdition [July 20 to Livy].

Note: Sam spent evenings for a time at the Oriental with the Rogers family — see July 23 to Robinson.