April – Sam sent a spoof to be inserted in a copy of Innocents Abroad for Jane L. Stanford, wife of the ex-governor of California. The note claimed he was the source for “E pluribus Unum” [MTL 4: 103-4].

George Routledge, the English publisher, published a new edition of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches, which included “Cannibalism in the Cars” as “a New Copyright Chapter” [MTL 5: 73n3].