June – The final serial segment of Pudd’nhead Wilson ran in the Century, and was called “resplendent as ever in faultless typography and unsurpassed engravings” by the N.Y. Times, June 2, p.3 “New Publications”. Sam was anxious to get the book published.

Sam inscribed a photograph of himself to Mrs. Hapgood: To Mrs. Hapgood / With the kindest regards of / S.L. Clemens. / June 1894 [MTP].

The 1947 Nov-Dec. issue of The Twainian, reprints a Jan. 14, 1909 letter from Frederick J. Hall to biographer Paine about the “closing incidents in the failure of Charles L. Webster & Company.” In this letter, Hall referred to a letter to him from Sam in June of 1894:

In his letter to me written from Paris in June, 1894, you have probably noticed he states he did not know that these obligations existed. As all notes, both for discount and renewal, were endorsed by him; as statements were rendered him, and as the company’s financial condition was a constant topic of conversation and correspondence, this mental attitude can only be explained by Mr. Clemens’ ignorance of commercial matters and extreme impatience of business details.

Hall further blamed the typesetter and the Panic of 1893 for the company’s failure. The letter he refers to may be that of June 1, or may not be extant.

Bookman (London) VI p.89-90 reviewed Tom Sawyer Abroad.

Tom was a promising boy in the old days. He is mostly conceited and sententious now. He says a shrewd thing or two, but all his adventures with balloons, and lions, and tigers, and dervishes, and the incongruity of American new humour meeting African barbarism and strangeness, hardly do more than provoke a wearied smile [Tenney 22].