October – Ladies’ Home Journal ran “The Anecdotal Side of Mark Twain, p. 5-6.

Tenney: “Two large-size pages, with a number of photographs of MT: two of them by Alfred Ellis, London; one by Clara Clemens (of MT being wheeled on a hand-truck in a railway station, by Major Pond); one by Walter G. Chase (of MT with Clara and Olivia Clemens); and three by permission of of Major James B. Pond (two show MT’s cats Beelzebub, Blatherskite, Appolonaris, and Buffalo Bill, and one shows MT in bed, talking to reporters). Most of the anecdotes are rather ordinary and unattributed, but there is some interest in the retelling of an account by William Walter Phelps (who had been United States Minister to Germany) of an evening MT spent with Wilhelm II, whose acquaintance with American literature had been limited to James Fenimore Cooper: ‘Kaiser and humorist talked together the whole evening,’ concluded Mr. Phelps, ‘and the rest of the company received little attention from either of them’” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Second Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1978 p. 170].

“About Play-Acting” ran in the Oct. issue of Forum. It would be reprinted in the collections The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories and Essays (1900) and My Debut as a Literary Person, with Other Essays and Stories (1903) [Budd Collected 2: 1004].

The Critic, on p. 227 in Jeannette L. Gilder’s “The Lounger” column, published a photograph of Mark Twain taken at Onteora, New York , “taken by an Onteora amateur when the great humorist was spending a summer [1890] within reach of his camera.” Note: not in Tenney.