July 15, 1898 Friday
July 15 Friday – Sam’s notebook:
July 15. The Duke de Frias gambled himself deep into debt & had to leave his Embassy & fly to Madrid with his young wife & young child. Count Coudenhove, & Countess Wydenbruck-Esterházy say his estates are exhausted & he is a ruined man. He is hardly 30.
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Rudolph Lindau spent part of to-day with us—on his way back to his post at Constantinople. Looks as well as ever.
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