January – Sam’s story, “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note” ran in the Century Magazine. Early in the month Sam noted that both PW and “Adam’s Diary” had gone to the typist [BAMT 3; NB 32 TS 53; Budd, Collected 2: 1000]. Note: the story was included in the book by the same name in 1893.

“Concerning Tobacco” was written sometime around 1893, not to be published until 1917 in What is Man? and Other Essays [Budd, Collected 2: 1001].

Ella Sterling (Cummins) Mighels wrote The Story of the Files: A Review of California Writers and Literature. Tenney notes: “Derived chiefly from RI and other MT works, and the Will Clemens biography, and generally superficial….There are chapters on the Californian, Sacramento Union, and other periodicals for which MT wrote” [21].