August 23 Tuesday – The Clemens party was in Hallstatt, Austria. Sam’s notebook:

Hallstadt, Aug. 23/98. Beautiful lake in a cup of precipices; surface littered with refuse & sewer-contributions; men (but not many—& not tourists) swim in it. Pre-historic remains are found here.

Spangler (gerade aus)—down the Neuen Strasse, said the cigar girl & the tin smith. Took a boy from the second square—2 or 300 yds to a lamp-post. S. worked 35 minutes, his little chubby boy working with a soldring iron by himself. Whole bill for mending my glasses & restoring my sight, 10 Kreuzers [NB 40 TS 31].