February – Harper’s Magazine, Number 477, p.439-44 included Sam’s story, “A Majestic Literary Fossil,” which was collected in 1893’s The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories.

St. Nicholas magazine for children, p.309-13 ran “A Wonderful Pair of Slippers,” which included Sam’s letter to Elsie Leslie.

William Thomas Stead’s Review of Reviews (London) chose CY as the “Novel of the Month” [Tenney 19]. See Sam’s Mar. 17 letter to Stead.

L.F. Austin of the London New Review simply treated CY as a joke, along with the praise of it by William Dean Howells in Harper’s [Tenney 18].

Sam’s notebook refers to a scandal of the prior summer in London, one that was partially suppressed by the English government. Sam no doubt read accounts of the perverse tastes of bluebloods at a private club on Cleveland street which ran in the N.Y. Times and in the Nov. 1889 London weekly Truth:

Feb. 1890. It has always been a Cleveland-street aristocracy, the British [3: 540n177].