November 17 Thursday – At the Grosvenor Hotel in N.Y.C. Sam wrote to Katharine I. Harrison, asking her to place 3,500 lire for him with the Manhattan Trust co. for the credit of Haskard & Co., Ltd, Florence. He suggested any future Florentine accounts be paid this way [MTHHR 581].

Sam also wrote to Sebastiano V. Cecchi, letter not extant but referred to in Cecchi’s Dec. 16.

Harper & Brothers wrote to Sam, enclosing an annual statement of his account to Oct. 31, 1904, totaling $25,029.14 to his credit. “We trust you will be pleased with the results” [MTP].