August 25 Friday – In Sanna, Sweden Sam wrote to T. Douglas Murray, who was working on publishing the Official Records of the Joan of Arc Trials in Rouen, and the “Rehabilitation.” Sam had agreed some time ago to write the introduction.

Yours (undated) has arrived [not extant]. I do hope his Majesty will give you leave, & I am very glad you think the prospect of it so good….

I wrote the introduction a week or ten days ago, but have since been adding to it, & shall add some more. If I shouldn’t like what I add, I can easily burn it: There’s plenty of matches; Sweden is where they make them.

Sam added his reaction to the “incomparable sunsets” in Sanna—“They make of all others merely the gates of hell ajar or some other loud crude thing;…” [MTP]. Note: he may have forgotten the sunsets in Maui. See also Gribben 494. Murray’s book would not be issued until 1902 by Heinemann in London.