December – “Traveling with a Reformer” first ran in the Cosmopolitan. It was later included in How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays (1897), and The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900) and My Debut as a Literary Person, etc. (1903) [Budd, Collected 2: 1001]. The second installment of Tom Sawyer Abroad appeared as a serial in the Dec. issue of St. Nicholas Magazine.

PW ran as a seven-part serial in Century Magazine beginning this month to June, 1894, with illustrations by Louis Loeb (1866-1909), a staff artist on the Century. Chatto & Windus used Loeb’s drawings when they published the novel (without “Those Extraordinary Twins”) in England. Railton’s website has an excellent article on the various illustrations used in PW. The book wasn’t issued until Nov. 1894, as Webster & Co. had gone bankrupt in Apr. 1894 and a publishing arrangement had to be made with Sam’s first publisher, American Publishing Co. Frank Bliss hired two unknown artists when the book was published on Nov. 28, 1894.

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Sam’s notebook mentioned Emmanuel Poire Carnan d’Ache’s Bric a Brac (n.d.) a book mostly of illustrations, caricatures and cartoons by a Frenchman and comic artist [Gribben 130; NB 33 TS 40]. Also in his notebook a reminder to send Livy a copy of the Dec. Cosmopolitan with the “story by Miss Van Etten” [Gribben 160 and 724; NB 33 TS 42]. See Dec. 15 for more on Miss Van Etten, who was not published in that magazine from May 1893 to Feb. 1894. Likely Sam got his magazines mixed up.