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April 19 Tuesday – At the Hotel Metropole in Vienna, Austria, Sam wrote to Mr. Dagobert Wlaschim, the letter not extant but referred to and quoted in the following notebook entry for this day:

Apl. 19, ’98. Concerning my portrait on post-cards I have to-day written to Mr. Dagobert Wlaschim the following—a definite promise, yet on which binds me to nothing more than the withholding of authorization— a promise easy to keep:

“If you do the work well I will authorize no other in this Empire. Please send me a sample” [NB 40 TS 19]. Note: Sam used postcards after this with his portrait and facsimile of signature.

George Parsons Lathrop (1851- 1898), poet and novelist, died in New York. See entries Vol. I & II. Sam would support his widow’s charity for poor cancer patients in 1901. See Oct. 19, 1901 to Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.

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