Bjorn, Check the "Boston Evening Transcript" November 26, 1872 for a letter by Clemens...but easier than that see: "British Benevolence" in Charles Neider's _Life as I Find It_. This is the text of a letter published in the New York Tribune, January 27, 1873 concerning the incident on the Batavia in November of 1872. I tracked this down via a reference in Dennis Welland's _Mark Twain in England_ page 53. Paul Berkowitz