January 2 Saturday – The Illustrated London News ran a first segment of “At the Shrine of St. Wagner.” Follow up segments ran on Jan. 9, and 30, 1892 [Willson list, Univ. of Texas at Austin].

The American Claimant was serialized in various newspapers from Jan. 2 through Mar. 30, 1892. The first book edition would be published in early April [Hirst, “A Note on the Text” Afterword p.30, Oxford ed. 1996].

Minnie L. Wakeman-Curtis, “a little Yankee girl in the South,” wrote begging for Sam’s autograph.

W.W. Newell, Jr. wrote from Madison, N.Y. with questions after reading Sam’s article on “Mental Telegraphy” [MTP].