May 23 Tuesday – En route from New York to Genoa, Italy on the Kaiser Wilhelm II, Sam wrote a short note to Chatto & Windus, asking them to send a volume of his sketches containing The Jumping Frog to Captain Störmer of the Kaiser Wilhelm II, in care of Leupold Fratelli, Genoa, and charge it to his account [MTP].

Sam’s notebook:

Reached Gibraltar Tuesday at dawn. I did not go ashore. We sailed again at 8 o’clock [NB 33 TS 11].

Based on an account of the voyage by H. W. Mead to the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, June 25, 1893 p.6, “Brooklyn People in Lucerne”:

On the tenth day, in the early morning, the anchor was dropped in the harbor of Gibraltar, where we were enabled to pass a short time on shore. Beside the officers and soldiers of the English garrison were to be seen long lines of the neighboring Spanish peasantry bringing to the early markets flowers, fruits and vegetables in great panniers on the backs of diminutive donkeys, which were led by the father of a family, the mother and children often being added to the burden of the small, but indispensable and patient donkey.