September 29 Friday – The Clemens family left Götenburg by ship to London.

An anonymous article, “A Friendly Critic. Mark Twain on the Jews,” ran in The Jewish World (London), p.12. Tenney: “A lengthy series of excerpts from ‘Concerning the Jews,’ with a brief introduction calling it ‘a well-intentioned article weakened by sundry jokes by no means aimed against Jews, but which prevent many people taking the author seriously. Another blunder, and one on which a third of the article depends, is the use of wrong statistics’: there are approximately 1,000,000 Jews in the Austrian Empire rather than 5,000,000, and in the United States 750,000 rather than 250,000” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Fifth Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1981 p. 164].