October 16 Wednesday – In Adelaide Sam wrote to James Sadler (1860-1935), thanking him for the book, Lyrics and Rhymes: Some Annals of Adelaide, etc. (1890) and the “most pleasant hour that we spent together.” Sam was glad to have the book, and wrote that Livy “has completed the volume by pasting the poem ‘To Mark Twain’ in it” [MTP].

Sam gave a matinee performance of “Mark Twain At Home” (No. 2) to a capacity crowd at the Theatre Royal, all tickets were “second class,” in other words, cheaper. Livy and Clara did not attend due to a carriage ride with Lt. Gov. Samuel J. Way which made them late.

R.S. Smythe sailed at 1:15 p.m. aboard the Cuzco to Melbourne to arrange matinee for Oct. 26. The Clemens party left Adelaide on the train at 4:30 p.m. headed for Horsham, where they would arrive at 2:30 a.m. the next day. A large crowd bid them farewell at the station, including Gov. Way, Minister Jenkins, Consul C.A. Murphy and other “leading citizens.”

Reviews published Oct. 17: Express and Telegraph [Shillingsburg, “Down Under” 15].