May 11 Friday – Sam was en route on the S.S. New York for Southampton, London and Paris. In his May 16 to Livy he wrote:

It seems an age since I left New York; & yet I have been at work a large part of the time, & work obliterates time more effectively than anything except sleep [MTP].

His piece, “Macfarlane” was written sometime during 1894, possibly during this voyage; in the same letter he wrote he was working on a review of James Fenimore Cooper, which would have been “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses,” first published in the North American Review for July 1895. In his May 16 letter to Rogers he said he’d worked on the Cooper piece “all through the trip” but did not finish, and thought it would make three articles. “Fenimore Cooper’s Further Literary Offenses” was left incomplete and not published during Sam’s life; it was first published by DeVoto in the 1946 New England Quarterly [Budd, Collected 2: 1002].