May 14 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Paris to his nephew, Samuel Moffett, confiding that he and Livy were “fleeing from these deluges of company” by using the work room (studio) Sam rented from Millet [MTLE 4: 58].

An unsigned interview by the Paris correspondent of the New York World was used in the Hartford Courant’s article, “Mark Twain on England,” by Hanley Southington. Sam commented that what can be satirized in England can also be found nearer home [Tenney 8; Courant.com].