November – “From the ‘London Times’ of 1904” first ran in the November issue of Century. It was collected in How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays (1900) and The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900) [Budd Collected 2: 1004].

Noah Brooks’ article, “Mark Twain in California,” ran in the Century p.97-99. Tenney: “Repeats the familiar history of MT’s early days in California; interesting only for the weight lent by the fact that Brooks was managing editor of the Sacramento Alta California, which sent MT on the Quaker City tour. (P. 96 is an engraving by T. Johnson from a photograph by Sarony)” [29].

Sam began the unfinished “Schoolhouse Hill” in Nov. 1898 and worked on it through Dec. F. Kaplan writes,

In its six chapters, it again brought young Satan to St. Petersburg, where he becomes Huck and Tom’s much-admired friend….All St. Petersburg/Hannibal is in awe of young Satan, “the miraculous boy” of prodigious talent and essential goodness who becomes known as “Forty-four,” a representation of one of Twain’s own multiple selves, the boy he partly saw himself as having been and the creative writer he had become [569].