July – Sam’s article, “A New Beecher Church,” was printed in the July American Publisher [MTL 4: 440n2]. Sam so inscribed on the flyleaf of Louis Figuier’s Primitive Man, that read: “Saml. L. Clemens, / The Primitive Man” [Gribben 230].

July? – Responding to a request for an autograph with a pun, Sam wrote from Elmira to Pierre Reynolds: “I only make them at funerals & places where I wish to feel sad” [MTL 4: 426].