To
W. A. Turner
3 November 1872 • London, England (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00827)
3 November 1872 • London, England (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00827)
My time is so occupied that I cannot venture to trench upon it lie literarilyⒶemendation. Pray overlookⒶemendation my delay in answering—I have been away from the city.
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens.
And please excuse the pencil—no ink in my room.
in ink: W. A. Turner Esq | The Laurels, Pendleton, | Manchester. postmarked: london • w 2 no 4 72 docketed in ink: Mark Twain | flourish
Explanatory Notes
1
Turner has not been identified.
References
- Mark Twain House and Museum, 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 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, Cyril Clemens Collection, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).
L5 , 212–213.
donated to CtHMTH in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.