To
Henry Lee
25 October 1872 • London, England (MS:ViU, UCCL 00824)
25 October 1872 • London, England (MS:ViU, UCCL 00824)
Friday
Dear Lee—
Can’t. I am in the family way with 3 weeks undigested dinners in my system, & j Ⓐemendation shall just roost here & diet & purge till I am delivered. Shall I name it after you?
Yr friend
Samℓ.
L. Clemens.
Dam John Camden Hotten.1explanatory note
post card
the address only to be written on this side.
to
Henry Lee, Esq
43 Holland street
Blackfriars Road
London, S.E.
postmarked: london ◇◇ 3 oc25 Ⓐemendation 72 5
Explanatory Notes
References
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- 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 5: 1872–1873. Edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1997
MS, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU). The letter was written on a halfpenny postcard identical to the one described in the commentary for 4 Oct 72 to Leeclick to open link.
L5 , 198.
The MS was at one time in the autograph collection of Dr. Max Thorek of Chicago. It was later acquired by Clifton Waller Barrett, who deposited it at ViU on 15 May 1962.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.