March 11 Sunday – At sea on the SS New York, Sam wrote to William H. Rideing on the editorial staff of Youth’s Companion and North American Review.

I have written, revised, reduced and finished that five hundred dollar article. “How to Tell a Story.” …I wanted to show you the first nine chapters of a new Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer story which I began to write a couple of months ago [MTP: paraphrase Freeman & Co. catalogs, May 20, 1932 Item 93]. Note: the new story referred to was Tom Sawyer, Detective. See Nov. 8, 1893].