October 13 Wednesday – At the Metropole Hotel, Vienna, Austria, Sam wrote to J. Henry Harper asking for a copy of JA to be “bound in a style proper to a personage of such exalted degree” for Queen Victoria’s granddaughter (daughter of Empress Frederick). The lady had been to Vienna and told Sam she’d read the book three times and given her copy to a girls’ school which she founded. Sam closed with,

“You ought to see some of these newspaper interviews, wherein they make me talk German—which I won’t do. My German is bad, but not THAT bad” [MTP].

Note: Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa (1840–1901) eldest daughter of Queen Victoria was called Empress Frederick after the death of her husband, the Emperor Frederick. They had eight children, including four girls: Charlotte, Victoria, Sophie, and Margaret. Just which of these was the lady Sam spoke of is not clear.