August 27 Tuesday – In Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam replied to John Y. MacAlister’s Aug. 2 letter.
Drop the mental telegraphy!—your machine isn’t synchronous with mine (which is out of repair) & won’t work.
August 26 Monday – In Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam wrote to C.F. Moberly Bell, editor of the London Times, asking for the title of Dr. Morrison’s book about his walk through China and Burma, as his copy that Bell had given him was “packed up with our stuff in New York.” He remembered the facts he was quoting but not the title of the book [MTP].
August 25 Sunday – Sam wrote a draft of “The United States of Lyncherdom” [Aug. 26 to Bliss].
August 23 Friday – In Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.
August 22 Thursday – Sam was in bed at Saranac Lake fighting off a head cold . See Aug. 23 to Rogers.
August 21 Wednesday – Sam arrived at Saranac Lake at 1 a.m. and spent this day and the next two days in bed fighting off “a cold in the head” [Aug. 23 to Rogers].
August 18 Sunday – The Kanawha arrived in New York City.
Sam’s last entry in his log: (insert drawn by Harry Rogers 1901)
New York. Cast anchor off the Recreation Dock in the evening. A final search for the umbrella produced nothing, except regret.
August 17 Saturday – The Kanawha stopped in Portland, Maine where Thomas B. Reed disembarked.
Then it sailed directly for N.Y.C. [MTHHR 468 n1].
Sam’s log: August 17, Saturday.
Sailed early.
August 16 Friday – The Kanawha was nearing Bath, Maine at noon on its return leg to N.Y.C. when Sam wrote to Livy. The letter was postmarked Aug. 17 from Bath.
August 15 Thursday – The Kanawha stopped in Rockland, Maine, 40 miles n. of Bath [MTHHR 468n1].
Sam’s Ship log: August 15, Thursday. Bass’s Bay.
Fog.