July 21 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook:

Took a room at the Villa Tannen as a writing-room. Price 20 francs a month.  Paid the first month in advance, & shall move in tomorrow.

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Our landlady offered me a room in the next house below ours at 60 fr a month.

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The boats are pretty & comfortable & swift. They carry 300 passengers & a couple of lifeboats the size of a split watermelon. One’s solicitude is not with the ________ people, but with the poor little lifeboat. I was in the only great accident that has ever happened on the lake & I forgot all about my family & turned all my attention to saving the lifeboat [NB 42 TS 16].

The house stands 100 [feet] above the surface of the lake. Has a glass coop enclosed by sashes which open like doors—when its entrance door is shut it is secluded from the house & is a room by itself. It is small; has merely room for a writing table, 2 chairs & a soft—size of a bathroom; a cozy little den, & just the place to lie & read & smoke on a stormy day & look out on the lake & the mountains & see the lightning split the sky & hear the thunder book & the rain lash the window-panes [NB 42 TS 14-15].

Dolmetsch places the Villa Tannen room Sam engaged for his studio, “about a quarter mile farther along the lake from Bühlegg” [22]. Insert: Villa Tannen