November 26 Tuesday – The Clemens party sailed from Auckland at 3 p.m. on the Union Co.’s Rotomahana. Shillingsburg: “They had arrived at Auckland’s western port near Onehunga, crossed through the city and departed from the northeastern shore on their way to Gisborne and Napier on the east coast” [At Home 161]. Sam wrote:

Vast and beautiful harbor. Land all about for hours. Tangariwa, the mountain that “has the same shape from every point of view.” That is the common belief in Auckland. And so it has — from every point of view except thirteen…. Perfect summer weather. Large school of whales in the distance [FE ch. XXXIII 311]. 

The Boston Daily Globe, p.4 “Drama and Music,” ran a favorable review of Frank Mayo’s dramatization of Pudd’nhead Wilson at Boston’s Tremont Theater.