June – William Dean Howells published a glowing review of Roughing It for the June issue of the Atlantic.

Probably an encyclopedia could not be constructed from the book; the work of a human being, it is not unbrokenly nor infallibly funny; nor is it to be always praised for all the literary virtues; but it is singularly entertaining, and its humor is always amiable, manly, and generous.

Sam’s sketch “Mark Twain on the Mormons” (Roughing It, Ch. 15) ran in American Publishing Co.’s in-house promotional monthly, American Publisher [Camfield, bibliog.].