June 15 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Sent Chatto MS down to & including page 1024—little Ceylon boy with a twine string for clothes. / Shall deliver Bliss duplicate of above, concluding with 14th package & page 405” [NB 41 TS 31].

The Hartford Courant, p.1 “Mark Twain, ‘Innocent’,” reported:

Mark Twain is said to have changed the title of his new book from “Another Innocent Abroad” to “The Surviving Innocent Abroad.” He is quoted as saying that his wife objected because others of the original “Innocents” are surviving, so he will put in an explanatory note to the effect…

The Boston Globe, p9, “Mark Twain Willing”:

London, June 14—On being informed that the New York Herald had started a subscription fund for his relief, Mark Twain wrote and signed the following statement:

“You can say in reply that if it is true, it is pleasanter news than I have been accustomed to receive for some time past. I was expecting a monument by and by, but if friends wish to pay my debts, I will do without the monument.”

Note: compare this Globe article with “draft” of a letter to the NY Herald, given in MTHHR 284n1, as well as the two letters to James Gordon Bennett, Jr., catalogued as June 19 and June 24 or 25, 1897. The latter is identical to text of the NY Herald article for June 19.