1 Mouland responded to this invitation on 21 January 1873 (22 Jan 73 to Mouland, n. 1).

2 General Colton Greene of Memphis, Tennessee, had been a passenger on the Batavia in November (20 Nov 72 to the Royal Humane Society). A South Carolinean by birth, he “accumulated a sizable fortune in merchandising” at a young age and eagerly gave “his time, ability, and money to the cause of the South” (Adamson, 4). He was an advisor to Governor Claiborne F. Jackson of Missouri during the pivotal early days of the Civil War, when Jackson attempted to swing the state to the Confederacy, and rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate army. Later he settled in Memphis, where in the 1870s “the elegant General” became a social arbiter by virtue of “his extensive European travel and command of languages. ... Handsome and charming as he was, he never married; he never divulged anything about his origin except that he was born in South Carolina—a mystery still talked about in Memphis” (McIlwaine, 236; Adamson, 1–4; Heitman, 2:177). Clemens included a recollection of C. F. Wood and Greene aboard the Batavia in his November 1881 notebook:

3 Clemens quoted his own published letter of 20 November to the Royal Humane Society: “If I have been of any service toward rescuing these nine shipwrecked human beings by standing around the deck in a furious storm, without any umbrella, . . . I am satisfied. I ask no reward.” Clemens’s claim that the “American papers” recommended a medal for him has not been substantiated. The Cleveland Leader, however, did return to the subject on 30 November:

Senator Charles Sumner (1811–74) of Massachusetts arrived in New York from Liverpool on 26 November aboard the steamship Baltic, which had passed through the same Atlantic storms as the Batavia. He had headed a committee of passengers who raised a cash reward for the crewmen involved in rescuing the survivors of another distressed ship, the Assyria (“Marine Disasters,” New York Tribune, 27 Nov 72, 1).