April 28 Monday – H.H. Rogers wrote to Sam.

“I want you to read the enclosed story, because it has been in my mind all these years as one of the great mysteries. The finding of the vessel as described is true. The Captain and his wife were from Marion, near Fairhaven” [MTHHR 485]. Note: n1: “Rogers enclosed a clipping from the London Illustrated News which recounted ‘A Riddle of the Sea’—the strange voyage of the brig Marie Celeste which in the 1860’s sailed from Boston for Mediterranean ports, but arrived in Spain without any of its passengers or crew. Clemens wrote on the envelope: ‘Wonderful sea-tale.’”