November 29 Monday – In Hartford Sam wrote a one-line acknowledgment of Webster & Co.’s check for $10,000.

Sam read a story at an Authors Reading event in New York City [Fatout, MT Speaking 657].

Charles P. Green wrote to Sam [MTP]. Green inscribed and sent Sam John Palmer’s Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada,…in 1817 (1818):

To Samuel L. Clemens, Esqr — A trifling recognition of the many happy hours his writings have marked Ch. P. Green, Malvern, England, Novr. 29, 1886 [Gribben 525].