September 10 Friday – In Weggis, Switzerland Sam wrote to Francis H. Skrine in Perthshire, Great Britain.

The cigars have come, & they give me a noble relief & vacation from the Swiss article. Thank you ever so much. I do not know, now, what I wrote you; but whatever it was, be charitable—for there was no August day in which I was in my right mind—& there will never be an August day, perhaps, in which I shall be sane. It is our terrible month. …

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We leave here Sept. 19, & shall reach Vienna by the end of the month, we suppose.

Sam asked Skrine if it were an English custom to leave off the sound of the final “t” in “trait” [MTP].