June 2 Tuesday – In Bloemfontein, Carlyle G. Smythe was interviewed by the Friend of the Free State, as he was a few other times during the tour. Several newspapers ran articles about Twain and his S. African tour [Philippon 20].

The Queenstown Free Press, June 2, 1896

MARK TWAIN IN QUEENSTOWN.

The great American humorist Mr. S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain) who has just concluded a record season of eight evenings in Johannesburg where each night over 100 persons occupied seats on the stage and yet numbers had to be refused admission, will give one of his celebrated “Mark Twain’s At Home” in the Town Hall Queenstown next Friday evening. In the May number of “Harper’s Magazine” where there is also an excellent biographical sketch of the famous humorist by his friend of 25 years standing, Rev J Mitchell [Twichell] (the Harris of the Tramp Abroad). Mr. Brander Matthews, Professor of English at Columbia University (New York) [also] writes of Mark Twain…[MTJ (Spring 2002) 44].