October 23 Tuesday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to Dihdwo Twe, a Liberian who visited Sam several times and was deeply interested in the Congo reform movement. Sam dictated the letter for Twe to use as an introduction to a pamphet calling on the world to help the Congo. Basically, Sam wrote, the human race is made up of humbugs; he felt Twe should deal with the human race as it is, not as he wished it to be—it had “no desire for uncomfortable truths, no appetite for them…” etc. [MTP].

Also about this day Sam wrote per Lyon to Mrs. H.R. Mayo Thorne of Baltimore. The secretarial memo:

Write the Baltimore woman to look for the person who telephoned you & said he had telephoned me. He couldn’t possibly get my telephone address. There’s no way.

asked me to say for him that it is all a mistake he has made no Baltimore engagement & makes no engagements outside of N.Y. that can by any possibility be avoided. That the person who proposed to have had speech with him me by telephone was either a deceiver himself or was the victim of a deceiver [MTP].

Sam went to 26 Broadway, the offices of H.H. Rogers, and learned that Emilie Rogers was expected home the next day. He would write her then [Oct. 24 to E. Rogers].

Isabel Lyon’s journal:

Mrs. Crane arrived today.

[see excerpt from this entry placed in Oct. 22 entry]

The King dictated to me a long & fine letter to Dihdwo Twe, the young African who has written an article on causes of the failure of Xtianity in Africa. The article is a crude affair, but full of meat. I read it with great interest & the King was interested too, as shown by his careful reply to Twe [MTP TS 139].

Roland Holt wrote from 44 E. 78 Street NYC to invite Sam to “a most informal little dinner to celebrate the return of my sisters,” Thursday Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. The Hewitts and Mrs. Paul L. Ford would be there [MTP].

J.P. Tower wrote from Hyattsville, Md. to thank Sam for his note of appreciation for Tower’s words from the pulpit that appreciated Sam’s love for Susie [MTP].