May 20 Friday – At the Hotel Metropole in Vienna, Austria, Sam wrote to Siegmund Schlesinger.

“We go to Kaltenleutgeben to-day to see if we shall like it. If we find it pleasant I think the family will be content to spend the summer there instead of going to a more distant place.”

Sam gave their new address as the “Paulhof” Kaltenleutgeben [MTP]. Note: Countess Pauline Fürstin von Metternich found the Villa Paulhof (insert) for the Clemenses [Dolmetsch 134-5].

Kaltenleutgeben – From May 20 to Oct. 14 1898. Dolmetsch writes:

For the Clemens family the countess [Pauline Fürstin von Metternich] did two important favors. She introduced them to Dr. Wilhelm Winternitz, whose Kaltwasserkur (hydrotherapy) was then all the rage among the Austrian aristocracy as a cure for anything from lumbago to cancer, and found them a house, the Villa Paulhof, to rent near hers at Winternitz’s Kuranstalt in Kaltenleutgeben…. The summer there was one of

Twain’s most productive in years, and it was considerably enlivened by the rounds of entertaining in which the countess invited the Clemenses into a circle at the resort that also included luminaries like Count Richard Coudenhove, Countess Bardi, Princess Khevenhüller, and “Carmen Sylva,” Queen of Romania.

More important, she also provided her own daughter, Clementine, as a companion for Jean Clemens throughout the family’s stay in the imperial city as well as at the resort, thus alleviating constant fears and worries Jean’s parents had for her well-being [134-5].