August 28 Wednesday –The Clemens party were en route on the R.M.S. Warrimoo to Honolulu. Only two letters from Sam are extant from the voyage to Honolulu. The first is to Jack Harrington (identity not established but NB 35 TS 37 gives his age as 13), this day.

We are going to celebrate your birth-day to-night; and out of affection for you & for your father we shall do the occasion all the credit we can, & make all the noise the captain will allow.

You are a naturalist, & I am gradually grinding out a poem for such of the tribe as are interested in the fauna of Australia — & of course you are one of that number. So I privately & confidentially furnish you a copy of this great work as far as I’ve gone with it. I haven’t yet worked the moa in, nor the emu nor the dodo, but I am after them.

Sam then added a four-stanza poem [MTP].