July 14 Saturday – The American Line steamship S.S. Paris arrived in New York. The N.Y. Times of the following day noted the arrival of Mark Twain [July 15, 1894 p.16 “Well-known Passengers from Europe”] Frank D. Hill the U.S. Consul at Montevideo was also listed, but not Consul Morse who Sam named in his July 6 to Livy.

E.K. Chambers wrote a brief review in Academy (London) XLVI p.27 of Tom Sawyer Abroad. The book was not offensive, as was CY, but unfortunately was not very funny: “it is more decent to parody Jules Verne than Sir Thomas Malory, and Mark Twain may therefore be said to have returned in his latest flight of humor to the limits of legitimate burlesque” [Tenney 22].

Rees writes of Sam’s relationships with Charles and Lucius Fairchild, and of the former’s investment in the Paige typesetter. Charles was for a time the Boston neighbor of the Howellses:

“Ultimately Twain’s relationship with Charles was more lasting than that with Lucius. Charles Fairchild was associated with Twain in the Paige typesetting machine debacle, and lost a considerable amount of money to Paige, but not nearly as much as Twain did. In a notebook entry for July 13, 1894, Twain recorded:”

Paige said he never intended to sign the Fairchild contract; he was only playing Fairchild. He meant to scoop some money out of him and he did. That is not his exact expression,…He said he got several thousand dollars out of Fairchild [9].