When Peter Schledorn mentioned my recent post on a Mahler discussion list, he drew a reply from none other than Henry-Louis de La Grange, author of the monumental, four-volume Mahler biography, who asserted that the figure of $90,000 quoted in the English edition of Mahler's letters to his wife is a misprint, and that it should have read $30,000. This correction is happily entered in the record. The average salary in America in 1910 was, incidentally, $750 a year.
