October 13 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Charles Webster, repeating his intention to retail commissions as general agents for the New York City district. Sam instructed this to be fifteen per cent and not to “make any other calculation.” Sam and Livy were “glad you & Annie are back again & well.” Sam was “very uncertain” when he would be down next [MTP].

Jesse R. Grant wrote, just returned from London. He had too much to tell him in a letter but if Sam wouldn’t be in NY soon he would write again. “I made very satisfactory arrangements in London as to our business—and returned simply because of the elections in England and the revolutions in Turkey” [MTP].