March 2 Saturday – The S.S. New York arrived in New York City [NY Times, Mar. 3, 1895 p.14, “Arrivals from Europe”; Mar. 11 to Livy]. Mrs. Cara Rogers Duff met his boat and escorted him to the Rogers’ home at 26 E. 57th Street [2nd Apr. 3 to Rogers].

Literary Digest p.10-11, ran “A Frenchman on Mark Twain and His Criticisms of Bourget,” which was a translated segment of a Le Figaro (Paris) article by M. Labadie-Lagrave; the article compared Bourget and Twain’s approaches to a topic. For Twain, he “begins by choosing a thesis, and he then invents a series of adventures, generally very interesting, which are built up so as to throw into full light a truth that he has previously formulated” [Tenney 23].