July 13 Thursday – In Sanna, Sweden Sam wrote to Laurence Hutton in London in care of Chatto & Windus.

So you sail Sept. 1st —and we shan’t get a glimpse of you two, for which we are very very sorry. We are here till October taking the Swedish movement-cure. I am taking it myself, for the mental & physical refreshment it furnishes, though there’s nothing the matter with me. We left Clara in London (c/o Chatto & Windus); she will sail for here July 28.

Consound you, why didn’t you & Twichell reach London a couple of days (or one day) earlier? Then we could have had a debauch together [MTP]. Note: In his July 15 to Fiske, Sam wrote that Twichell and Hutton (with spouses) reached London 35 hours before the Clemens family left for Sweden, which would put their arrival at July 5 [Aug. 22 to Rogers].