November – The second of a four-part, 15,000 word article on Sam and Joe Twichell’s trip to Bermuda, ran in the Atlantic Monthly: “Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion”  [Wells 22]. Note: Budd notes that “The Captain’s Story,” which was a part of “Rambling Notes,” was later printed separately in several collections; and that “The Invalid’s Story” was excluded by Howells from the piece for being “too offensive” for the magazine. It later appeared in The Stolen White Elephant (1882) [“Collected” 1017].

Sam wrote to an unidentified person, enclosing a drawing he’d made of a sleeping cat and a drawing of a cat with arched back by Thomas Nast labeled: “This is a dog. Th. Nast” [MTLE 2:187].

Sam’s notebook included tirades against Whitelaw Reid for a planned biography which was never written [MTNJ 2: 49]. Osgood & Co. billed Sam for a set of George Mogridge’s (1787-1854) Learning to Think (1846) [Gribben, 479].