DBD: World Tour

July 25 Saturday – The Clemenses were on the SS Norman, en route to Southampton, England.

July 26 Friday – Jean Clemens’ fifteenth birthday. (Jean was at Quarry Farm in Elmira.)

The train trip from St. Paul to Winnipeg was about 600 miles. The Clemens party arrived in Winnipeg, Manitoba a little after noon [Scharnhorst 163]. They took rooms at the Manitoba Hotel.

Allingham writes of Winnipeg then:

July 26 Sunday – Jean Clemens’ sixteenth birthday. On or about this day the SS Norman stopped in the Madeira Islands, some 1,550 miles from England, given the ship’s rate of 400+ miles per day.

July 27 Saturday – In the evening Sam gave his “No. 2” lecture in Winnipeg, Canada, his second performance there, which ran 35 minutes longer than Sam intended, so after 90 minutes he offered to let the audience go, but cries of “go on” induced him to finish [July 29 to Rogers].

J.B. Pond’s diary shows some extra activities during the day:

July 27 Monday – The Clemenses were on the SS Norman, en route to Southampton, England.

July 28 Sunday – The Clemens party rested a day in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Sam was interviewed by a traveling correspondent, Marie Jousaye, who authored a book of poetry earlier in the year. Her interview appeared in the Toronto Globe on Aug. 10, p.11 “Mark Twain Interviewed,” and may be found in Scharnhorst p.168-171. From Sam’s notebook:

July 28 Tuesday – The Clemenses were on the SS Norman, en route to Southampton, England.

July 29 Monday – From J.B. Pond’s diary:

July 29 Wednesday – The Clemenses were on the SS Norman, en route to Southampton, England.

July 3 Wednesday – At Quarry Farm Sam wrote to John D. Adams of Harper & Brothers about the proofs and location of an “ennobling scene” for the forthcoming Book II of JA in the magazine’s serial run. Sam also confided that he was “not out of bed yet.”

July 3 Friday – In Kimberley Sam went on drives with A.M. Robeson to the Bulfontein and new Wesselton mines. At 8:30 p.m. the Clemens party left Kimberley on a first-class rail car, bound for Cape Town some 647 miles southwest [Philippon 23]. Parsons writes of this leg of the journey:

July 30 Tuesday – Another travel day, interesting as witnessed by Sam’s notebook and Pond’s diary:

July 30. In northern Dakotah; no more wheat; but grass and billowy, rolling, just the Great Plains.

Struck the Missouri at Williston D & followed it several hours to Fort Buford, a large post — 7 p.m. on the border of Montana [NB 35 TS 19].

J.B. Pond’s diary:

July 30 Thursday – The Clemenses were on the SS Norman, en route to Southampton, England.

July 31 Wednesday – After a trip of some 700 miles from Crookston, Minn. the Clemens party arrived at Great Falls, Mont. From J.B. Pond’s informative diary:

July 31 Friday – The Clemens family arrived in Southampton. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers what may have been meant as a PS to his July 22 letter:

We are just arrived, 16 days out from the Cape, and now I will telegraph London to send down the letters. Love to you all. / SLC [MTHHR 228].

July 4 Saturday – This was a travel day. At 8 a.m. the Clemens party arrived at Victoria West Road (now Hutchinson), some 419 miles northeast of Cape Town [Philippon 23]. Sam sent a postcard of July 4th “salutations” to Hartford lawyer and friend, Henry C. Robinson [MTP].

July 5 Friday – At Quarry Farm Sam began a short note to Robert Underwood Johnson of Century Magazine, that he finished with a PS the next day, July 6.

I am still in bed with my Pullman carbuncle (41st day), but I’ve ground out some 2,500 words of nonsense (& fact) about the bicycle. I could have strung it out indefinitely — but not with advantage, I think [MTP].

July 5 Sunday – At 7 a.m. Sam, Livy, Clara and Carlyle G. Smythe arrived at Cape Town, S. Africa and took rooms at the Grand Hotel. They’d missed the Fourth of July banquet there [Philippon 23]. Parsons notes, “Twain found that the Adderley Street Railway Station was directly opposite his last Grand Hotel” [“Traveler in S.A.” 35]. Parsons continues, describing the hotel:

July 6 Saturday – In Elmira at Quarry Farm Sam finished his July 5 note to Robert Underwood Johnson of Century Magazine with a PS that he had no time to revise the bicycle piece as the carriage was starting for town that moment. Johnson would have to send him a proof, and best to send it to Quarry Farm before July 10 [MTP].

July 6 Monday – The Clemenses were staying at the Grand Hotel in Cape Town S. Africa. The Cape Times ran an article about Sam’s plans for writing and lecturing in England.

The famous humorist is in excellent health, indeed better health than he has had since he started on his talking tour round the world…. He asks for a rest before visitors and interviewers begin [Parsons, “Traveler in S.A.” 37].

July 7 Tuesday – The Cape Times ran an interview, “Mark Twain on Tour: Arrival in Cape Town, Observations and Comparisons” p.7 [Philippon 23; Scharnhorst 313].

July 8 Monday – At Quarry Farm Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers, again delayed on coming to New York.

July 8 Wednesday – The Clemenses were in Cape Town, S. Africa, probably sightseeing. Sam received a postcard from Poultney Bigelow who was at Delagoa Bay. In the evening Sam dined at the Castle of Good Hope with General W.H. Goodenough, and probably Mrs. Anna Goodenough, whom he gave an inscribed photograph of himself to during the voyage on the Norman (see on or after July 15) [July 9 to Bigelow]. Note: Lt.

July 9 Thursday – In Cape Town, Sam gave his “At Home” (No. 1) lecture to the 1,200 seat Opera House. Tickets ranged from 5 shillings to 1 & 6 pence. The Cape Argus ran a review of the talk on July 14 [Philippon 23].

H.H. Rogers wrote to Sam, notifying him that Frank Bliss was in New York and had brought him a list of points made by Harper & Brothers in the Uniform Edition matter. Rogers understood it this way:

June 1 Saturday – Arthur Reed Kimball’s article, “Hartford’s Literary Corner,” ran in Outlook, p.903-6, including pictures of Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and their homes; also a picture of Richard E. Burton. Kimball noted that Twain was considerably more than a jester [Tenney 24].