December – “Mental Telegraphy: A Manuscript with a History” ran in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, p.95-104. This piece was written in 1878 and first published here. McCullough traces the evolution of this article, as well as “Mental Telegraphy Again,” Harper’s, Sept. 1895 in the Mark Twain Encyclopedia, p.510. Sam had noted many instances of what he felt was mental transmission of thoughts, and had initially included them in TA, but later removed those passages as misfitting a humor book. The piece was submitted anonymously in 1881 or 1883 and rejected by the North American Review. It was collected in 1893 in The £1,000,000 Bank Note, Etc. [Budd, Collected 2: 1000].

Review of Reviews (London) IV, p.590 ran “Mark Twain Among the Prophets,” which summarized and extensively quoted Sam’s article on “Mental Telegraphy” in the Dec. Harper’s [Tenney 19].