To Charles Warren Stoddard
16 October 1873 • London, England
(MS facsimile and transcript: www.sharperarebooks.com,
15 February 2008, item 95, UCCL 13094)

Please pass the bearer to a good stall.
Mark Twain.

Oct. 16.

My Dear Old Boy—

Can’t you take this note as your authority & run in to the lecture (Hanover Square Rooms) tomorrow evening or Saturday afternoon? Or mail this to Geo. Dolby, (if you prefer,) 52 New Bond street, & he will send you ticket.

Or can’t you come to my room, 113, third floor, Langham, from 11 till [noon?] Am always in then. With great love [&] in great haste, Mark.

[ Mark Twain ]

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Description of Texts and Provenance

Copy-text:MS facsimile (‘Please . . . from’ [1.1–10]), and transcription (‘11 . . . Twain’ [1.10–12]), www.sharperarebooks.com, 15 February 2009, item 95.

Previous publication:Newly published on MTPO, 2010.

Emendations and textual notes:

noon? • noon.

& • 7

Mark Twain • [signature reported and quoted]