August 11 Sunday – The yacht Kanawha was now headed for Digby, Nova Scotia, across the Bay of
Fundy from St. John. Sam kept a log of the trip, which reflects the high jinks among the passengers:
Sam’s ship log:
August 10 Saturday – The Kanawha anchored all day at St. John, New Brunswick [Aug. 11 to Livy].
Sam’s ship log: August 10, Saturday. St. John.
Reversible Falls. They have been discontinued, there not being tourists enough this season to make it pay [MTP].
August 9 Friday – In St. John, New Brunswick on the Kanawha, Sam wrote to Livy.
Livy darling, I got your telegram here yesterday afternoon, & was very glad indeed to hear from you. Give aunt Sue my love, & now that you’ve got her, hang on to her.
July 31 Wednesday – In Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers: “Dear Mr. Rogers. I shall be in New York & abed by 11 o’clock tomorrow night. S.L.C.” [MTP:Parke-Bernet Galleries catalogs, Apr. 28, 1959, Item 89].
Note: not in MTHHR.
July 30 Tuesday – In Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam wrote to Elizabeth (Ann Chase) Akers Allen (Elizabeth C. Akers) continuing his discussion of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s guilt in marrying Harriet and then mistreating her till she committed suicide.
July 29 Monday – In Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam replied to Francis H. Skrine in London, who evidently had asked Sam to write a review of his new book, Life of Sir William Wilson Hunter (1901). Skrine’s incoming not extant. Skrine would present Sam with the published book (see Gribben p. 645 and Sam’s reactions in a letter to Skrine on Feb. 7, 1902).
July 28 Sunday – In Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam wrote to Joe Twichell. Sam opened with a short discussion of the impracticality of him appealing to President McKinley, whom he sarcastically referred to as “that fine ‘patriot’,” in the matter of abuses by missionaries to China.
July 26 Friday – Jean Clemens’ 21st birthday.
July 24 Wednesday – G.&C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass. wrote to Sam:
We see that Mr. Winston Churchill in “The Crisis” states that a stateroom on a river boat derives its name from the fact that the first staterooms with wooden partitions instead of curtains were named after different states and that the texas was so called (after the annexation of Texas) as being a structure “annexed” to the states or staterooms.