February – Sometime during this month Sam wrote Richard Watson Gilder, directing him to take the Hornet article, name the price himself, and send the check to Whitmore [MTP].

Luther S. Livingstone’s article, “The First Books of Some American Authors: V.—Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Artemus Ward,” ran in Bookman (NY), p.563-7. Tenney: “On The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), reproducing the title page and with comments by MT on the book (pp. 563-64)” [31].