September 29 Sunday – At the Grosvenor Hotel, N.Y. Sam wrote (on the margins of Twichell’s Sept. 27 letter) to H.H. Rogers: “Dear Mr. Rogers: I shall try to get in, tomorrow or Tuesday & telegraph Twichell what day to come, & what hour in the morning, & whether at West 35th st, or where” [MTHHR 474-5]. Note: this about viewing the America’s Cup third heat on Oct. 4.

Sam also wrote to Joe Twichell.

It looks now as if No. 3 [heat in America’s Cup races] would be next Thursday [Oct. 3].

We leave this hotel for Riverdale a couple of days before that [Oct. 1].

My instructions for last Friday were, to appear at foot of West 35th st. at 8 a.m., Where the “Kanawha” (Mr. Rogers’s yacht) would be lying at anchor & his launch waiting to tote me out.

I mean to drop a note to Mr. Rogers & can get instructions sent to the Murray Hill for you.

Goodbye for the present—hoping to see you on board the Kanawha. / Mark [MTP]. Note: the third heat would not be until Oct. 4; the second Oct. 3.

Sam also wrote on Grosvenor Hotel letterhead to Franklin G. Whitmore asking him to “collect the within early—I am leaving that bank,” and giving him the new address as Riverdale, N.Y.C. [MTP].

Sam also wrote on Grosvenor Hotel letterhead to Mary D. Young (widow of John Russell Young) in Washington, D.C.

I explained to your publisher in a note a few days ago, that I should not be able to undertake the work. But even if I were competent to do it & could do it well & worthily, my contract with Harpers would not allow me the privilege…I beg pardon for my tardiness; I am very busy moving & getting to housekeeping [MTP].