November – Tom Sawyer Abroad appeared as a serial in the November issue of St. Nicholas Magazine. “The Esquimau Maiden’s Romance” ran in the Cosmopolitan. This sketch was later collected in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900), and My Debut as a Literary Person, Etc. (1903) [Budd, Collected 2: 1001].

Sam’s notebook carries a resolve to “speak to Howells” about dramatizing Don Quixote [Gribben 135; NB 33 TS 38]. Note: Sam and Howells saw Henry Irving in Becket on Nov. 16; this entry likely occurred soon after that viewing.

November or December ca. – In New York, Sam sent a note to Frederick J. Hall, referring to his July 26 notebook entry, the substance of a letter he sent Hall that day from Krankenheil, in Bavaria. He wanted to know if the “Defense of Harriet Shelley” MS was still on hand. Sam also directed Hall to buy a dozen of his photographs from Sarony’s, “side-view” to send to Livy at the Hotel Brighton in Paris [MTP: Oct. 1938 Van Nosdall catalog, Item 3].