November 22 Thursday – Sam’s notebook: “The Monterey, 351 W. 114th & Columbus Avenue. Cars pass door. But can go by 6th ave Elevated & get off at 116th. Then take 116th surface cars down Manhattan Avenue & pass the door. / Sam Moffett dinner 6.30. / 2 p.m. at the Greenwich Savings Bank—6th ave & 16th. / Harsen Rhoades” [NB 43 TS 29-30].

Note: John Harsen Rhoades, Jr. (circa 1870-1943), son of John Harsen Rhoades (circa 1838-1906), the founder and president of the Greenwich Savings Bank who retired from business at the early age of 39. His son John Harsen Rhoades Jr. founded the investment bank Rhoades & Co. which merged with Carl M. Loeb Co. in 1937 to become Loeb, Rhoades and later Shearson Lehman, a subsidiary of the American Express Company. Which Rhoades Sam was seeing at the Greenwich Bank is not clear.

The N.Y. Times ran the article about Mark Twain’s complaint against the cab driver (see Nov. 21 and Nov. 23 entries).

This was the evening referred to as the “Conspiracy” dinner in Sam’s Nov. 21 to Hutton and his Nov. 20 to John Kendrick Bangs. According to the prior letter, the gathering would have included wives. A galley proof of the invitation survives with a note on the verso from Sam to Mr. Lee, catalogued as “after 4 December 1900”.