October – In Florence at the Villa Viviani, Sam noted Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1871) [Gribben 693; NB 32, TS 33].

Scott Rankin’s article, “People I Have Never Met: Mark Twain,” ran in the London Idler. Included was a cartoon of Sam in sailor’s garb on the bridge of a ship with a life-ring reading “Quaker City” [Tenney 20].

Douglas Sladen’s article, “New York as Literary Centre,” ran in the English Illustrated Magazine, p.136-44. Tenney: “Brief and superficial description of MT as seen by the (N.Y.?) World; portrait” [21].