June – The Critic for June, p.518-24 ran an illustrated (six photographs) article, “Mark Twain from an Italian Point of View” by Raffaele Simboli, correspondent for the Nuova Antologia. See Nov. 6, 1903 entry for excerpt. Included in the pictures was one of Jean Clemens on her white Italian saddle- horse (see insert), a gift from Livy, which would die in an August trolley accident in Lee, Mass. Also in this issue was Mark Twain’s “Letter to an Italian Editor,” p. 484-5 in Jeannette Gilder’s column, “The Lounger”:

“I shall be glad to receive that copy of the Antologia and I thank you. I shall try to read it—and fail, as I can’t read anything higher up than newspaper Italian. I have neglected the living languages and shall not learn the dead ones until I am dead and need them.”

The June issue of Atlantic Monthly mentioned on p. 823 that Mark

Twain and actor Joe Jefferson were invited as guests of the Bodleian

Club, a men’s club for book lovers [Wells 26].

The June issue of The Phrenological Journal contained “Mark Twain on Medicine,” p. 189-90. The article was a discovery by Clemens that

lying on his left side at night relieved his heartburn. Sam related   being in London and having “One doctor, a very famous one, no less than Sir William Thompson, said he remembered hearing of it fifty years ago when his own heartburn was cured that way by an old man in Germany…”