June 21 Monday – Percy Mitchell , in Paris, telegrammed: (“not aware anything had been cabled”); and wrote to Sam that James Gordon Bennett, Jr. had not returned from Paris, so Mitchell telegraphed Bennett a summary of “our conversation” Was there anything else Mitchell could do? [MTP]. Note—this about Sam trying to get the Herald fund canceled.

Rogers cabled Sam: “Twenty two hundred looked upon as Herald take” [MTHHR 285]. Note: “take” was initially mistaken for “fake”; see note 1 source. The fund never went beyond $3,000, and this may have contributed to Sam calling off the scheme. Or, did “the family” (meaning Livy) put their foot down, as his letters claimed?

In July, Sam’s notebook referred to this day: “The day before Jubilee (June 22) Skrine & General ____ were exhausted by the intolerable heat (83)—I never felt it” [NB 41 TS 43].