July 18 Tuesday – In Sanna, Sweden Sam wrote to Mollie Clemens. His letter is not extant but was transcribed in a letter from Pamela A. Moffett to her son, Samuel on Aug. 3. Sam wrote of the biographical sketch that his nephew had done of him for the Uniform Edition of his works. He wrote they would return to England in the fall and sail for American before spring [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Miss Cohen. “As I remember it, two marks were used (mark twain), instead of two crosses” [MTP: Arader catalogs, No. 79, Item 24].

Sam’s notebook:

Sanna, Rosendale, Sweden, July 18, ’98 [99]. Jean has taken a week of Kellgren’s Movement Cure & the improvement is so astonishing that we hardly venture to talk together about it lest it presently turn out to be only a transient flurry with nothing substantial about it. For two years, now, she has been obliged to take from one to three doses of bromide daily to conquer the daily absent-mindedness. With her first treatment here she left off the bromide, & meantime has been absent-minded only twice, instead of 15 or 20 times, as formerly. Kellgren says bad attacks are in store, but that she must weather them without resorting to drugs [NB 40 TS 57-8].