12 November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 00532)
That was all right. I knew you’d print the dispatch—but next morning the little stranger’s health was so precarious that I thought I would try to stop the publication, merely on his mother’s account, for it Ⓐemendation he was taken away, all printed jokes about him would grate upon her feelings of course. But he seems to be doing pretty well, & so it was perfectly proper to print the message.1explanatory note
I wish I could be at the Press Club dinner tonightⒶemendation. I have sent the boys a dispatch.2explanatory note If I happen over to the telegraph office I will answer your letter by telegraph.
Love to you.
letter docketed: boston lyceum bureau. redpath & fall. nov 3 1870 3explanatory note and N. Y. | Buffalo | Mark Twain | Nov. 12 ’70
Apparently Clemens had telegraphed on 9 November, trying to forestall publication of his previous day’s telegram. Neither the 9 November telegram, nor Redpath’s reply, nor the further telegram Clemens promises in the next paragraph is known to survive.
The previous letter.
The bureau’s receipt stamp had not been properly set.
References
- Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.
- 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, Houghton Library, Harvard University (MH-H).
L4 , 235–236.
bequeathed to MH in 1918 by Evert J. Wendell.
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