To
Unidentified
13 February 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: ICU, UCCL 00574)
13 February 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: ICU, UCCL 00574)
office “express” printing co.
in answer i am obliged to say that it will not be possible
for me to accept your kind invitation. i shall not be able to lecture again
during the present season. thanking you kindly for the compliment of your
invitation, i am
buffalo, Feb. 13
1870
1
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dear sir:
yours truly,
agents:
boston lyceum bureau,
20 bromfield street,
boston.
sam’l
l. clemens.
[“mark twain.”]
P. S. Am sorry to say that I am clear out of the lecture field, & neither riches nor glory can tempt me!
Yrs Truly
S. L. Clemens
References
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
- 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 facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, which is at the University of Chicago Library (ICU).
L4 , 330.