April 14 Sunday – In Paris at 169 rue de l’Universite, Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.

Yours of the 2d [not extant] has come, and it is a very genuine pleasure to me to know that I am missed. I had such a good homelike time there that I missed the house and everybody in it and found it lonesome in the ship and hard to reconcile myself to the change.

Sam wanted Rogers and his daughter Mrs. Duff to go with him on his world tour. At this point he thought they would leave daughter Clara behind, “for the experts seem to have decided that she is a musical genious” and he didn’t want her to lose the time from her studies. He expected to sail May 11, rest up in New York at the Everett House on the weekend of May 18-19. and leave for Elmira at 9 a.m. Monday morning, May 20. He chose not to stay with Charles Langdon and family at the Waldorf to avoid appearances of “splurging”. He expressed some frustration and questions regarding his planned Uniform Edition, calling Frank Bliss “an ass,” and mentioned Frederick A. Stokes and Harper who were both eager to publish the volumes. He suggested Harper’s might “issue the same books in a high priced and uniform” set, while Stokes’ editions could be cheaper. Sam wasn’t feeling sharp:

I am tired to death all the time, and my head is tired and clogged, too, and the mill refuses to go. It comes of depression of spirits, I think, caused by the impending horror of the platform [MTHHR 140-1].