To
Joseph R. Hawley
14 February 1869 • Ravenna, Ohio (MS: CtHi, UCCL 00253)
14 February 1869 • Ravenna, Ohio (MS: CtHi, UCCL 00253)
gillette house,
ravenna, ohio,
Feb. 15—
186
9.
Gen. Jos. R. Hawley
Dear Sir—
Your letter of the 10th is received.1explanatory note As the illustrations for my book are progressing so well that the electrotyping may be shortly begun, I suppose I may safely calculate upon a call to Har come to Hartford & begin to read proof, within a fortnight. I shall probably remain there several weeks & shall be glad to talk with you. I think it very likely that it will turn out to be just as well to take the California trip before making permanent business arrangements.
With great Respect—
Mark Twain.
Explanatory Notes
1
The letter that Clemens enclosed in his own of 13 and 14 February to Oliviaclick to open link, just after writing this misdated reply to Hawley.
References
- Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Conn.
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 3: 1869. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Dahlia Armon. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1992
MS, Joseph R. Hawley Papers, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford (CtHi).
L3 , 100.
This letter may have been donated to CtHi at the time of Hawley’s death in 1905.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.