June 25 Wednesday – The Kanawha and the Clemens family’s first stop on their way to York Harbor, Maine was Fairhaven, Mass. In his June 26 to Rogers Sam wrote of the trip from Riverdale to Fairhaven.

The sail from Riverdale till night fell was charming & exalting & beautiful beyond all experience. It went ahead of anything that ever was. If you had only been along the whole thing would have been just perfect. And the yacht was never so beautiful before; her new clothes suit her to a dot. We had a most pleasant time at Fairhaven; I, billiarding & napping, & the others driving & seeing the Library, Town Hall, etc…[MTP: Christie’s East catalog, 12 Nov. 1997, Item 20; not in MTHHR].