July 19 Saturday – Sam’s fifth of five letters on the Shah of Persia appeared in the New York Herald. The Clemenses left London for Edinburgh, Scotland. They stopped for several days in York, England.

Sam inscribed An Accurate Description and History of the Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of St. Peter, York, from Its First Foundation (1790): “Saml. L. Clemens, York, July 19, 1873” [Gribben793].

Sam also inscribed each of three volumes of William Combe’s The History and Antiquities of the City of York, from Its Origin to the Present Times (1785): “Saml. L. Clemens, York, July 19, ’73” [Gribben 155].