December 13 Tuesday – At the Hotel Krantz in Vienna, Austria, Sam finished his Dec. 8 and 11 letter to H.H. Rogers.

Mrs. Clemens wouldn’t let me charge the Harpers a fair price, so I cabled them that ther offer “lacks $500.” I would have made it double that. And she says the cablegram was from you, not the Harpers. Women are full of superstitions, & don’t know anything.

Did the Harpers pay you the $500 they “allowed” me for the Jew article? They didn’t send it here.

I think—but am not quite sure—that Dr. [the rest of the letter is missing] [MTHHR 380].

Sam also began a letter to Richard Watson Gilder, which he PS’d on Dec. 15:

I have given Prince Lubormirsky my card with your name on it (‘introducing, etc.) I do not know him well (merely daily for a week) but he is brought to me by his friend (& mine) Count Coudenhove, & that to me is quite ample endorsement. ….

I shall be introducing another aristocrat to you presently, but in that instance I take all the responsibility myself: I know the man.

Don’t chaff me about importing princes, & don’t put others up to it. I shan’t import any that are not square men; & if a man is that he is worth importing, I reckon, no matter what his social trademark is. [MTP]. Note: See Dec. 15 for PS. Prince Casimir Lubormirksy would be appointed Polish Minister to the U.S. in 1919.