February 29 Sunday – Orion Clemens wrote from Keokuk to Sam, adding to it on Mar. 1. “We left Fredonia Wednesday, and arrived here Thursday—26 hours from Dunkirk…Yesterday I wrote 20 pages with great satisfaction…We received your welcome letter Friday, and were glad to hear the little ones are well” [MTP].

February, late–March, early – The earliest copies of the first edition of A Tramp Abroad came from the bindery [Hirst, “A Note on the Text” Oxford edition, 1996].