March – Munsey’s Magazine for March included George W. Smalley’s article, “American Authors Aborad,” p. 774-7. Tenney: “Contains a rather general discussion of MT’s popularity in England , personally and as a lecturer, but no new information” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Second Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1978 p. 172].

Sam’s story, “The Californian’s Tale,” written in 1892 and previously published in The First Book of the Authors Club, Liber Scriptorum, edited by Arthur Stedman, was published in Harper’s Monthly. It was later collected in The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) [Rasmussen 53].

Bird offers that Sam wrote the short, bawdy sketch “The Mammoth Cod” in early March, 1902. It was published in Henry N. Cary’s A Treasury of Erotic and Facetious Memorabilia (1901-1915) and originally attributed to Petroleum V. Nasby, but now is judged to be by Mark Twain [Mark Twain Encyclopedia 484].