To
Hattie Booth
18 March 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtHSD, UCCL 00445)
18 March 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtHSD, UCCL 00445)
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Buffalo, Mch. 18.
Miss Hattie Booth—
I do it cheerfully, Mi for I am glad enough to k find that I can still “bring tears to eyes unused to weep.”1explanatory note I had thought it was one of my Lost Arts. I used to do that thing right handy, with boys under my size.
Yrs Truly
Mark Twain and Saml. L. Clemens.
Explanatory Notes
1
The request from Booth (who remains unidentified) was presumably for an autograph and probably included this phrase. No other source for it has been found. The monogram on this letter signified “Livy L. Clemens.”
References
- Stowe-Day Memorial Library and Historical Foundation, 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 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1995
MS, Katherine Seymour Day Collection, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford (CtHSD).
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