Sam wrote from Venice,  Italy to Chatto & Windus,  asking them to send copies of Innocents Abroad and The Adventures of  Tom Sawyer to William Mayer,  care of G.K. Mayer, Vienna Austria [MTLE 3: 94]. Following the establishment of a Linotype factory in 1890 in England,  the publisher William Mayer and his son Jacques traveled to Germany in 1894 to  find business partners there. 

In his notebook Sam wrote a  glowing testimonial for Dittura Agostino, his gondolier [2: 220]. Sam discovered “Venetian  oysters the size of beans—half dollar a dozen—tasted 4 dozen” [220].