June 22 Tuesday – The Clemens party sailed from Buffalo in the steamer India headed for Duluth, Minn. At the western edge of Lake Superior. The captain of the India was Edward Mooney [MTNJ 3: 243n62]. Sam jotted in his notebook to send Mooney a copy of IA. They would pass Cleveland and Detroit, steam up into Lake Huron, through the Soo Lock at Sault Ste. Marie (built in 1855 and operated toll-free by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1881), and across Lake Superior to Duluth. From there they would go by rail to St. Paul and then by steamboat to Keokuk. Note: It may or may not be significant that no notes on this trip are found in Sam’s notebook; also that Keokuk is only a mere 45 miles from Sam’s boyhood stomping grounds, Hannibal, yet there was no mention or effort to go there.

Chatto & Windus wrote to Sam, “We shall complete our annual stocktaking next month and will send you our accounts of sales of your books and remittance for royalties.” The Illustrated edition of HF had been a slow seller in England, they wrote, and so were republishing it “popular form,” or a cheaper edition. They also supplied progress on a German translation and new authorization to F. Siemens Von Osterman of Berlin (whose letter Sam had sent a few days before) [MTP].