February – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam replied with one line to Frederick A. Duneka: “This is a most dam good Conclusion—put it in, Duneka / SLC” [MTP].

Prof. William Milligan Sloane wrote from NYC to Sam. “I want you here on March 5th at one o’clock to lunch with Sidney Lee and I want you very badly. Do come, there will be some of your best friends.” Hearing “conflicting accounts” of Livy, Prof. Sloane hoped she was no worse but much better [MTP].

William De Loss Love’s article, “The City of Hartford,” ran in New England Magazine, p.649-72. Tenney: “MT is barely mentioned by name in the text, but on p. 670 there is a photograph of him (‘Copyright 1900, by Rockwood’) and on p. 667 there are photographs of his home and those of his neighbors, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Dudley Warner” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 189].

The North American Review included the third installment of Mark Twain’s series, “Christian Science III” (p.173-184) written in 1897 -8 in Vienna. The installments ran monthly From Dec. 1902 through the Apr. 1903 issue. A book would result from these articles, though Harpers would delay it till 1907.