September 19 Thursday – In the morning before leaving Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam wrote a goodbye note to Mr. and Mrs. George V. Duryee, the real estate agent who leased their house over the lake: “Hail and Farewell! / It has been Paradise to us all Summer” [MTP].

Probably this day or Sept. 18 Sam wrote a quick note to H.H. Rogers.

“Could you have this ad. put in the paper one time down in the corner is a cheap place, & charge. Rice or Harry has the umbrella & this will make them ashamed & they will give it up” [MTP]. Note: This is more fun from the “missing umbrella” of the Kanawha cruise. See prior listings, also Sept. 25. tentatively dated “? 15 September 1904” in MTHHR.

The Clemens family headed to Elmira for a weeks’ stay.