February 26 Saturday – At the Hotel Metropole in Vienna, Austria, Sam wrote to Chatto & Windus, having resolved the Gordon-Cumming matter in his own mind after seeing the original and subsequent revisions.

“I guess we’ve ‘got’ the late Cummings’s [sic Cumming’s] sensitive relative. I have sent your letter to him, & written him…”

Sam suggested a way they might footnote the quote and point to the “whole hideous” article by Roualeyn Gordon Cumming. He also asked for four more copies of More Tramps Abroad,, and related Bliss’ desire to use the maxims of PW in a calendar, with Sam’s counter suggestion to print a set of 60 postcards—would Chatto like to try that “scheme”? [MTP]. Note: See Feb. 1 from Dunbar (the “sensitive relative”) and Feb. 17 to C&W for the backstory on this letter.