February 23 Wednesday – Michael Henry Dziewicki replied to Sam from Cracow, Austria, thanking him for his “kind letter”; he’d been busy so had taken awhile to answer. About meeting—there was a chance that he’d be passing through Vienna, but if his novel (unspecified) “really proves a success” he’d prefer to spend his vacation in England. He added that he’d taught English in Cracow and when reading Mark Twain in translation: “…the joke is twice as funny to me when I see a dazed perception of it slowly dawning on my pupils face.” He had also heard Sam was collecting German long words—“You might add to them a few Czech words without vowels …and some Polish ones, like chrzaszez for instance!” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the envelope “From the author of ‘Entombed in Flesh’.” (Entombed in Flesh (1897); see Gribben p.210.