To
William Bowen
28 March 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: TxU-Hu, UCCL 00891)
28 March 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: TxU-Hu, UCCL 00891)
Mch. 28.
Dear Will—
Bless your heart, child, is thy servant a muggins, that he should travel 1200 miles by rail when there ain’t anybody to make him do it? Skasely.1explanatory note
My London address will be:
Care Geo. Routledge & Sons
Publishers
The Broadway
Ludgate Hill
London, E.C.
SLC divided the address and the note with a diagonal lineMany
thanks my
boy. Write me
there. Ys Ever
Sam.
Explanatory Notes
1
Bowen had evidently pressed Clemens to lecture in St. Louis, despite his earlier refusal (20 Mar 73 to Bowenclick to open link).
References
- Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
- 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
- Hornberger, Theodore, ed. Mark Twain’s Letters to Will Bowen. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1941
MS, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin (TxU-Hu).
L5 , 323; Hornberger, 22.
purchased by TxU in 1940 from Eva Laura Bowen (Mrs. Louis Knox), daughter of William Bowen.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.