September 7 Thursday – The Brooklyn Eagle, Sept. 8, 1893, p.4, “Personal Mention” noted Sam and Clara’s arrival:

Mark Twain and his daughter, Miss Clara L. Clemens, arrived yesterday from Bremen on the Spree.

At the Murray Hill Hotel in New York, Sam wrote to Livy having read her letter waiting for him at Webster & Co. upon his arrival there. He calmed her fears about cholera; wrote that “there is no cholera alarm on this side at all.” He reported that commerce was “still very stringent here,” after talking with Hall, who also felt they would “pull through.” They’d have a “thorough talk to-morrow.” Sam gave a sarcastic line or two about the machine not being finished; told of having to leave his watch for repair and wrote of his literary efforts paying off:

I’ve sold the Esquimaux Girls Romance to the Cosmopolitan, for eight hundred dollars (which I will keep to live on here), & Pudd’nhead Wilson to the Century for six thousand five hundred, which will go to you by & by — first payment after Nov. 1 — for it is even hard for the Century to get money. Story will begin in December number, & be made the “feature.”

Gilder and Johnson [Richard Watson Gilder and Robert Underwood Johnson] are vastly pleased with the story, & they say Roxy is a great & dramatic & well-drawn character.

Sam also raved about the fruit stalls in New York:

I bit into a peach & the juice squirted across the street and drowned a dog.

In the evening Sam dined with Robert Underwood Johnson and Dr. Clarence C. Rice at the Players Club. Paine writes “Clemens took a room at The Players — ‘a cheap room,’ he wrote, ‘at $1.50 per day’” [MTB 969].

Clara went to the theater with cousin Jervis Langdon. Sam would send the pair to Elmira on Saturday, Sept. 9 and wrote his intention to “stay right here until this business cyclone abates” [LLMT 267].