1893 The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  August 22, 1893
Event:  Porter party in a railway station in northern Wisconsin on way home to Maryland. Tarzan decides to drive his car to New York. William Cecil Clayton finds Tarzan's dropped cablegram.
Source:  Clayton asks Jane where Tarzan was. She replied, "at the last minute he determined to drive his machine back to New York. He is anxious to see more of America than is possible from a car window. He is returning to France, you know." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Date:  around September 29, 1893
Event:  At the end of the first delayed month, Jane delays for the second month. William Cecil Clayton returns to England by himself.
Source:  "But when the month was drawing to a close, she found still another excuse upon which to hang a postponement until at last, discouraged and doubting, Clayton was forced to go back to England alone. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Date:  around October 29, 1893
Event:  William Cecil Clayton wrote Jane several letters but still had no luck in getting her to marry him. Finally, William Cecil wrote to Professor Archimedes Q. Porter and talked about his dilemma.  Professor Archimedes Q. Porter agreed to bring Jane and family and visit William Cecil Clayton in England.
Source:  "So the evening that he received Clayton's letter Professor Porter announced that they would leave for London the following week." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Date:  around mid-November, 1893
Event:  In England Jane still dodged William Cecil Clayton's marriage proposals.
Source:  "But once in London Jane Porter was no more tractable than she had been in Baltimore,"  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Date:  around the end of November 1893
Event:  Lord Tennington invited William Cecil Clayton and the Porter's to cruise around Africa in his yacht.
Source:  "She found one excuse after another, and when, finally, Lord Tennington invited the party to cruise around Africa in his yacht, she expressed the greatest delight in the idea, but absolutely refused to be married until they returned to London. As the cruise was to consume a year at least, for they were to stop for definite periods at various points of interest, Clayton mentally anathematized Tennington for ever suggesting such a ridiculous trip. It was Lord Tennington's plan to cruise through the Mediterranean, and the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, and thus down the East Coast, putting in at every port that was worth the seeing." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.