January – Sometime during the month at sea Sam looked over the Oceana’s library and wrote in his notebook:

I must read that devilish Vicar of Wakefield again. Also Jane Austin [sic] [Gribben 32; NB 37 TS 3].

Also:

The Ahkoond of Swat [NB 36 TS 21]. Note: listed among a catalogue of “sounding titles” he enjoyed hearing in Bombay [Gribben 397].

Sam also noted George Bruce Malleson’s Dupleix (1890) as a “beautiful book” about Joseph Francois Dupleix (1697-1763) [Gribben 447; NB 37 TS 1]. Note: See also Apr. 10 entry.

Sam read Edwin Lord Weeks’ article on Bombay in the Nov. 1895 issue of Harper’s [Gribben 294].