[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,

Updates for:  Trip Out West from July 26, 1861 to Aug. 14, 1861