1895 – The MTP lists this year and unknown place for a line from Sam in the palmreader Cheiro’s Memoirs. See Aug. 8, 1894 for Sam’s meeting of Cheiro. This sentiment was likely written shortly after that meeting, possibly in Cheiro’s guest log book, not in 1895.
Sometime during the year Sam wrote to an unidentified person about why he didn’t prefer writing short stories:
1894 – Sometime during the year Sam inscribed Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894 to Bram Stoker: Pudd’nhead Wilson’s compts to Bram Stoker. / per / Mark Twain / ~ [MTP].
“Macfarlane” was written sometime during 1894-5, but not published during Sam’s lifetime. It was included in What is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings, Baender, ed. (1973) [Budd, Collected 2: 1002].
Sam also wrote a short note to an unidentified person:
A Mighty Poor Financial Head – Villa Viviani Idyll – Wasted Trip Across the Atlantic - Panic in the Markets – So Dismally Blue! – Pudd’nhead Wilson - Wandering Again – Back Across the Atlantic with Clara – No Money to Borrow - Henry Huttleson Rogers to the Rescue – The Belle of New York
A More Respectable Address – Dinner With the Kaiser – Resorts and more Resorts - Flying Trip to Chicago – A World of Night-&-Day Railroading - Letters for McClure’s Syndicate – Hobnobbing in Europe - American Claimant – Viva Villa Viviani!
Books published by Charles L. Webster & Co. in 1892
Bacheller, Irving, The Master of Silence: A Romance
Beard, Daniel C., Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance
Benton, Joel, The Truth About “Protection”
[There is a list of publications preceding 1891 in the on-line site for DBD. No explanation for this list is given:
Yankee Inspires Praise and Invective – Legal Tangles and Slippers for Elsie Leslie - House Wins Lawsuit – Livy’s Eyes are Bad – Goodman Stumps for Typesetter - Summer in Onteora – Susy Enters Bryn Mawr – Jane Clemens Dies - Jean’s Mystery Illness – Olivia Lewis Langdon Dies – Frauds & Liars!
Editor’s note: The close of 1885 is a propitious division for this work, both in number of pages and in the life of Samuel Clemens, who was at the highest point of his success, with several best selling books behind him, immense success with the release of Grant’s Memoirs, and the future pregnant with possibilities as a publisher and writer. In February of 1886 Julia Grant received the largest royalty payment ever made in U.S publishing history. All told, some $450,000 would eventually be hers. Sam’s reputation was never stronger.
January – “Contributors’ Club” items in the Atlantic Monthly were usually unsigned. Sam’s untitled piece on Tauchnitz ran in this month’s issue [Camfield, bibliog.].
November 2 Friday ca.– On or about this day Sam wrote from Virginia City to Catherine C. (Kate) Lampton and Annie E. and Samuel E. Moffett. Kate was Sam’s first cousin; Annie and Sammy were Pamela Moffett’s children, Sam’s niece and nephew. Teasing Annie again about the “bullrushers” story, Sam asked,
