November 17 Wednesday – At the Metropole Hotel, Vienna, Austria, Sam and Livy wrote to H.H. Rogers, including a paragraph from Livy with formal request of the three $10,000 payments to be made to the Webster creditors as outlined in Sam’s Nov. 11.

If the paying of this money at this time is going to be a fatal mistake, of course we must abide by your judgment and not do it. But I hope you will not regard it so. If I can heave the main debt off my shoulders I shall feel free again, and shall not mind the Bank-debt.

I am beginning a new book this morning. (Of all the work which I have begun since last August I have finished not one single thing.) Shall I throw this aside next week? [MTHHR 304-5]. Note: the source fails to identify the “new book.”

Clara Clemens wrote a letter in German to Eduard Pötzl.

Dear Sir, / Were you serious when you said you would help me get tickets which are hard to come by? Would you be so kind to inform me if you find out ahead of time that there will be tickets available (one or two) for a Sunday philharmonic concert so that I could come and get them immediately?

I would be extremely grateful for your kindness and trouble.

My mother said she hopes you will come back soon and then we all must go to the museum and spend a few hours (or half an hour?) there.

Hoping that I have not asked too great a favor of you … [MTP]. Note: thanks to Holger Kersten for translating this letter.