July 23 Sunday – In Sanna, Sweden Sam replied to Richard Watson Gilder (incoming not extant). Sam praised the cure they’d been taking—“it takes all the old age out of you & sends you for the feeling like a bottle of champagne that’s just been uncorked” [MTP].

Livy replied to Percy Spalding’s July 20 letter, thanking him for all that he did for them. She wrote three paragraphs—the first about storage fees for their baggage, the second her feeling the Queen Anne Mansions people had not treated them “quite fairly” by not reserving the suite she wanted, and the third her hope that the Spaldings were well and “are having a good season” [MTP]. Note: Queen Anne Mansions wrote to Percy Spalding on July 15, and their letter was enclosed in Percy’s July 20 letter.