February 12 Saturday – At the Hotel Metropole in Vienna, Austria, Sam replied again to Arthur E. Gilbert, who evidently had queried him about the shape of the stem for the pipe he was naming after Mark Twain.

Yes, large bowl with inclined stem—don’t like straight stem. Send the one you are naming for me.

I enclose the address of a pipe-dealer—the only one my wife knows. She buys my pipes for me. This dealer tries to keep the Peterson, but is generally out of stock when I want one.

Now don’t send me a pipe if I’ve got to send back an opinion of it. People who buy soap do that, but I don’t buy soap, or use it either [MTP].

Sam’s notebook:

“From letter to Bram Stoker: If he is willing, his commission for acting as agent for my plays, to 15% of the profits accruing to me, all over the world, & he to pay the commissions of all his sub-agents out of his 15%”

[NB 40 TS 12]. Note: See Mar. 7 to Rogers.