November 19 Saturday – In Vienna, Austria, Sam wrote one sentence on a postcard to Chatto & Windus, perhaps relating to his “quatrains” sent on Nov. 13: “I agree to the unwisdom of it—in fact, in any form or at any figure” [MTP].

Sam’s longtime friend Edward Merrill Bunce (“Ned”) (1841-1898) died of typhoid fever at 8 a.m. in Hartford [Nov. 21 Hartford Courant]. Sam would enter news of Ned’s death in his notebook on Dec. 2, and write Ned’s widow, as well as Joe Twichell.

Sam’s notebook: “Nov. 19/98. Mailed Hornet article to Harper—& copy of Alice (new) to Tuohy” [NB 40 TS 51]. Note: “Wapping Alice” and the Hornet article to James M. Tuohy of the N.Y. World. The essay, “My Debut as a Literary Person,” was used as the title piece in the 1903 My Debut as a Literary Person and Essays and Other Stories.