November 7 Sunday – At the Metropole Hotel, Vienna, Austria, Sam wrote to William Blackwood.

Livy wrote the note and Sam signed it.

“I want to thank you most heartily for your note of the introduction [not extant] to Mme Laszowska: we have all enjoyed very much meeting her and hope that we may see a good deal of her during our sojourn in Vienna” [MTP].

Note: Countess De Laszowska, a Romanian who only learned English at school age, became a writer in both English and German, with two novels and a nonfiction work about Transylvania. Dolmetsch writes that Sam “developed an intriguingly ambitions relationship” with the Countess, and ‘’’the Lasowskis frequented the circles of Princess Metternich and Countess Wydenbruck-Esterhazy and took one of Dr. Winternitz’s villas near the Clemenses’ in Kaltenleutgeben for the summer of 1898” [147]. Blackwood is not further identified but may be a son of the founder of Blackwood & Sons, English publishers.