Editing Joshua Slocum (section)

==Later life==
In 1901, Slocum's book revenues and income from public lectures provided him enough financial security to purchase a small farm in [[West Tisbury, Massachusetts|West Tisbury]], on the island of [[Martha's Vineyard]], in Massachusetts. After a year and a half, he found he could not adapt to a settled life and he sailed the ''Spray'' from port to port in the northeastern US during the summer and in the [[West Indies]] during the winter, lecturing and selling books wherever he could. Slocum spent little time with his wife on Martha's Vineyard and preferred life aboard the ''Spray'', usually wintering in the Caribbean.<ref>{{cite book | last=Garraty | first=John Arthur | last2=Carnes | first2=Mark Christopher | title=American National Biography | publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-place=New York | date=1990 | volume=20 |isbn=978-0-19-512787-4}}</ref> In 1902 he was arrested in Riverton, New Jersey, on a charge of raping a twelve-year-old girl who had taken a public tour of the Spray. It emerged that the girl had not been assaulted but that Slocum may have exposed himself to her, though he said that he had no memory of the incident. He pleaded no contest to the reduced charge of indecent exposure and spent over a month in jail.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2018939/getting-away-from-it-all/|access-date=2024-08-19|date=2010-10-28|first=Philip|last=Terzian|title=Getting Away From It All|publisher=Washington Examiner}}</ref>

Slocum and the ''Spray'' visited [[Sagamore Hill]], the estate of US President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] on the north shore of Long Island, New York. Roosevelt and his family were interested in the tales of Slocum's solo [[circumnavigation]]. The President's young son, [[Archibald Roosevelt|Archie]], along with a guardian, spent the next few days sailing with Slocum up to Newport aboard the ''Spray'', which, by then, was a decrepit, weather-worn vessel. Slocum again met with President Roosevelt in May 1907, this time at the [[White House]] in Washington. Supposedly, Roosevelt said to him, "Captain, our adventures have been a little different." Slocum answered, "That is true, Mr. President, but I see you got here first."<ref name="Teller">{{Cite book|title=Joshua Slocum|author=Teller, Walter Magnes|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]|year=1971|isbn=0813507006|location=New Brunswick, N.J|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joshuaslocum00tell}}</ref>

By 1909, Slocum's funds were running low; book revenues had tailed off. He prepared to sell his farm on Martha's Vineyard and began to make plans for a new adventure in South America. He had hopes of another book deal.<ref name=Teller/>