Vol 3 Section 1073
July 1 Friday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.
Sam’s notebook: “I cannot reproduce Livy’s face in my mind’s eye—I was never in my life able to reproduce a face. It is a curious infirmity—& now at last I realize it as a calamity / [Horiz. Line separator] / Passed Gibraltar in the fog, 1.a.m. It is a slow ship” [NB 47 TS 15; MTB 1222 in part]. Note: the 1 a.m. would have been July 2.
Chatto & Windus sent a statement of S.L. Clemens’ account, totaling £121.6 to July 1 [MTP].
Bryan M. Clemens in St. Louis, Mo. wrote a letter of condolence to Sam [MTP].
Senator Odoardo Luchini of Florence wrote to Sam that he preferred to write in Italian, sure that his daughters would translate accurately. He continued to look into matters about the Countess Masiglia with Senator Barsanti [MTP].
July 2 Saturday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.
Sam’s notebook: “In these 34 years we have made many voyages together, Livy dear—& now we are making our last; you down below & lonely; I above with the crowd & lonely” [MTB 1222; NB 47 TS 15].
July 3 Sunday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.
Sam’s notebook: “Ship-time 8 a.m. In 13 hours & a quarter it will be 4 weeks since Livy died. / 31 years ago we made our first voyage together—& this is our last one in company. Susy was a year old, then. She died at 24 & has been in her grave 8 years” [MTB 1222; NB 47 TS 15].
July 4 Monday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.
Sam’s notebook: “We did not come out of our rooms during the day and evening. We were full of memories of other Fourths” [NB 47 TS 15].
July 5 Tuesday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.
Sam’s notebook: “On the second day out, the surgeon was asked for a tonic for Clara. I was sorry, for it is easier to get rid of 7 diseases than of one doctor. This one has called every day since. After York Harbor and Florence I have an aversion for one-horse doctors. (Kirch). / [Horiz. Line separator] / Passed the Azores” [NB 47 TS 15].
T. Douglas Murray wrote from London—a letter of condolence to Sam, feeling it best to wait some before sending it [MTP].
July 6 Wednesday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.
Fanny P. Hapgood, also a passenger on the Prince Oscar, wrote a note of condolence to Sam [MTP].
July 7 Thursday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.
July 8 Friday – The Clemens party was en route in the Prince Oscar from Naples to New York.
SLC used mourning border for most letters from Susy’s death on, then from Livy’s death on.