April, late or May early – Sam wrote a short essay, “Reflections on a Letter and a Book,” so titled later by Paine. The piece was a response to a letter and book sent him by Hilary Trent (aka R.M. Manley). Sam was often irritated by such requests to read literary works, and took this instance to wax ridicule on the selfishness of the human race [AMT 1: 181, 520n181.3].

May – The second and concluding section of Mark Twain’s “Instructions in Art” ran in Metropolitan Magazine [Camfield’s bibliog.].

Howard E. Wright, General Manager of the American Plasmon Co., left the company under charges of dishonesty and fraudulent issue of stock [Report of Cases Vol. 187 (1910): Ashcroft v. Hammond 491].