March 30 Wednesday – At the Hotel Metropole in Vienna, Austria, Sam wrote to Frank Bliss, thanking him for the FE with special binding that had arrived for Princess Pauline Metternich. He also said that his niece, Annie Moffett “has those old pictures of me” and offered her address in Fredonia, N.Y. [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Dr. Rudolf Lindau:

At last the books which I ordered from America for her Royal Highness have arrived, & will be addressed to you at Meiningen & forwarded to-day. I do not think much of the Joan of Arc, but the binding of the other one suits my barbaric tastes very well.

Rudolph the incomparable paid us some visits here which were red-letter days for us; he is one of the head saints in this family’s calendar [MTP].

Note: Lindau had been with the foreign office in Berlin and a friend during the Clemens family’s stay there in 1891-2. See several entries MTDBD 2. Two Rudolfs or Rudolphs with Berlin ties to Sam were Rudolf Mosse, a Berlin real estate agent, and Professor Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (1821-1902) the notable anthropologist— “Rudolph the incomparable” is more likely the latter, at this time age 77.