May 15 Thursday – Sam, Livy, baby Susy, nurse Nellie Bermingham and Clara Spaulding, accompanied by Mrs. Fairbanks, who’d been invited by Mrs. Langdon in April to see the couple off, all left Elmira and traveled to New York.

Note: The New York Times article of June 11, 1873 disclosed that Sam “About a month subsequently, while taking the Erie Railway, on his way to take steamer for Europe, Mark had a book thrust upon him by the newsboy, containing five of his sketches [unauthorized].” This caused Sam to instigate a lawsuit against Benjamin J. Such in New York. This would have been the trip referred to.