November – Sam reached a literary peak of sorts, when his article, “A True Story – Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It,” appeared in the “high brow” Atlantic Monthly. Sue Crane’s Negro cook—Auntie Cord—told Sam her experiences as a slave. After repeating the story to John Hay, William Seaver, and perhaps others, Sam had been encouraged to write and submit it [Wilson 267].

“An Encounter with an Interviewer” first ran in the Lotos Club’s anthology, Lotos Leaves [MTL 5: 436n4; MTL 6: 219n2].