October 11 Thursday – The Clemens family was at sea en route from London to New York on the SS Minnehaha.

The ledger books of Chatto & Windus show that 2,000 additional copies of the 6s.0d. edition of More Tramps Abroad, (FE) were printed (totaling 25,000 to date). The official English publication date was Nov. 25, 1897 [Welland 238; 1904 Financials file MTP]. See 1897: Aug. 12, Nov. 10, Nov. 25, also: Mar. 8, 1898, and Aug. 7, 1907 for other print run amounts, totaling 30,000.