October 19 Monday – In Sam’s reply to Joe Twichell of Oct. 9, he agreed on a date for Joe to visit them at the Grosvenor Hotel on this day. Hill notes the visit by the Twichells to say goodbye [70]. The date is also noted in Sam’s following NB entry:
Sam’s notebook: “Joe Twichell—lunch. / 70 – 5th ave, cor 13th. / 4.30 p.m.—Can bring Joe— / Crawford Kenion / Lord Liveden / Gen. Hawkins” [NB 46 TS 27]. Note: Lord Liveden (Lyvden) was noted in the Mar. 30, 1903 New Zealand paper, Otago Witness, as organizing a group of the Lords and Commons to visit Canada and America. Lord Lyvden was a member of the Passive Resistance Committee of England and was headlined with Dr. Henry S. Lunn, Chairman of the Reform Club of London in a Nov. 17, 1903 NY Times article, “British Education Act.” This may be the same man, name spelled differently. General Hawkins may have been Rush Christopher Hawkins (1831-1920) who was colonel in the Civil War in charge of the 9th New York, “Hawkins Zouaves,” making Brig. General in 1866. After the war he studied law; he was a publisher of works on history, a rare book and art collector who feuded with James McNeill Whistler. Crawford Kenion was not identified.
George W. Reeves for Hoyt & Co. wrote to Sam. “Agreeable to …our mutual understanding, that in case Charles L. Gardiner [sic Charles A. Gardiner] avails himself of his option to purchase” the Tarrytown house, “between this date and Dec. 1st, 1904, the money already paid shall be deducted from the commission in case of sale, which would be due Wm. H. Hoyt & Co., …brokerage would be Eight Hundred (800) Dollars.” Sam wrote on the letter: “No doubt. Ah there! He started in to bilk me, & did it. I wrote him that I should ask Mr. Rogers’ opinion of the transaction & would decide by his verdict…& when he called at the hotel yesterday evening he was not carrying his tail up over his shoulder, but down between his legs…I didn’t know commissions were collectable a year in advance on unsold houses” [MTP].