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November 3 Thursday – At the Grosvenor Hotel in N.Y.C. Sam wrote to Andrew Carnegie.

In our sad circumstances I am not privileged to be present Nov. 22d , but I greatly want to renew the acquaintanceship with Mr. Morley, & I would like to come some time—in the day or in the evening—& see him & the Carnegie’s when there is an absence of formal company.

Does such a time happen—in your house?

With kindest regards to you & Mrs. Carnegie, & my best respects to Mr. Morley [MTP]. Note: Lord John Morley (1838-1923), British Liberal statesman, writer and editor, author of The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Three volumes; 1903).

Horatio S. White, in Florence, wrote a short note on a small card to Sam: “the enclosed I found in Mr. Fiske’s pocket book after his death. It belongs in your hands’ [MTP]. Note: the file notes, “The enclosure was SLC to Willard Fiske, 16 June 1904, 06872….”

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