April 13 Monday – The Clemens family was at sea on the S.S. Wardha, bound for Port Louis, Mauritius. Livy wrote home to Alice Day on their ninth day at sea that “this ocean trip has been most restful” [Rodney 187].

H.H. Rogers, having just received Sam’s Mar. 15 letter, wrote of his talk with J. Henry Harper, and felt that if American Publishing Co. was as reasonable, they’d be able to “make a good trade all around.” Rogers also mentioned an article on Mark Twain by Joe Twichell which would appear in the May issue of Harper’s Monthly [MTHHR 208-9].