At 15.09 95-07-22 -0400, David Tomlinson wrote: >Twain's Letters from 1872-73 gives a brief paragraph about the trip, >saying that he sailed from England to New York on the Batavia with the >journey beginning on November 12, 1872 and ending about two weeks later. Are the letters available on-line? It seems strange that he went to New York in 1872 since he was in England 1872-1874.`Wasnt that his first trip to Europe? Couldnt it have been the other direction? >There is reference to the ship and the journey in _A Tramp Abroad_, Vol. >I, Chap. XXVII and another in the essay "All Kinds of Ships." Yes, I have checked the references in "A Tramp abroad" which is about the trip to Europe 1878-1879. The references do not refer to his own passage though. During that trip, MT took the the Hamburg_America Line "Holsatia" New York-Hamburg and the Cunard "Gallia" Liverpool-New York back home in 1879. So his only trip with the "Batavia" must have been in 1972 since the ship was transferred to the Pacific in 1884. Where kind I find the essay "All Kinds of Ships"? Bjorn