March 8 Tuesday – Sam’s essay “Dueling,” written this day, was not published in his lifetime but collected in Europe and Elsewhere (1923) [AMT-1: 299-302, 707:1898a].

The ledger books of Chatto & Windus show that 5,000 additional copies of More Tramps Abroad, (FE) were printed (totaling 23,000 to date in London). The official English publication date was Nov. 25, 1897

[Welland 238]. See entries: 1897: Aug. 12, Nov. 10, Nov. 25, also: Oct. 11, 1900, and Aug. 7, 1907 for other Chatto print run amounts, totaling 30,000.

Paine writes, “Bliss did well with the new book. Thirty or forty thousand copies were placed without delay” [MTB 1055]. Note: Sam’s Feb. 5 to Rogers and his Feb. 11 to Bliss expresses disappointment at only 20,000 sold by American Publishing Co.