July 7 Thursday – Sam was en route to Bremen, Germany on the S.S. Lahn. While at sea Paine claims Sam wrote the 8,000 word sketch, “About All Kinds of Ships.” Paine refers to this article as “All Sorts and Conditions of Ships” [MTB 947-8]. It was first published in The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other Stories (1893) [Budd, Collected 2: 1001]. See June 19 letter to unidentified doctor which shows he worked on the article during the trip to the US on the S.S. Havel. Sam may have revised or added to the article during this voyage.

Livy’s letter of June 23 from Bad Nauheim to Sam reached Elmira in the morning, and was noted so by C.J. Langdon [The Twainian Nov-Dec 1977 p.1].