November 7 Monday – At the Hotel Krantz in Vienna, Austria, Sam finished his Nov. 6 to H.H. Rogers with a playful paragraph:

Nov. 7. It just occurs to me: am I a Vice President, or a Director in the Steel Company, or only a General Manager? And what do I get? What is the wages? And will I get anything for advice? Would you advise me to charge high, or go cautious, along at first? Will you collect, or had I better send in a bill? Do you think I had better go on with literature for a while, or begin to run the Company now? You know more than I do about these things. Tell me / Hochachtunssvoll / SLC [MTHHR 374].

Sam’s notebook: “It came—only $150” [NB 40 TS 49]. Note: the check from Forum that he had written James B. Pond about on Nov. 5.