September 19 Monday – In Kaltenleutgeben, Austria, Sam wrote to John Brisben Walker, owner of Cosmopolitan.

Sure it’s the illegant conscience you’ve got, & few there be that can afford such an expensive one. Yes, the second cheque astonished—& gratified—me. I didn’t know what it was for; I merely uttered my little prayer of humble thanks & went & cashed it. Many would have thought God sent it; but I knew by the signature it was you.

Indeed & indeed I am hoping I shall yet appear again in the Cosmopolitan.

Sam related finding an “admirable beer cellar” in a Russian Orthodox church. He also asked Walker to send him the Cosmopolitan again: “Now that I am out of debt I am proposing to revel in luxuries again” [MTP].