1 July 1873 • London, England (MS: NNC, UCCL 00940)
It is too bad, but I am called to Paris on business & the chances are I am a little afraid that I shall may not get back in time for Hepworth on the 8th—I do wish we had cos chosen Ⓐemendationthe later day, now.1explanatory note I promised to help write up the Shah for the N. Y. Herald at £20 a column, gold, & have done him up pretty voluminously so far, but they insist upon my going to Paris & “doing” him there—& I did intimate that I would, in the first place, but had never thought of it since—never imagined they could want it, in fact.
Now I have a strong hope & belief that I can be back here Monday the 7th & thus save Hepworth. Four days of the Shah in Paris will be all of him that I can possibly need. Wherefore, won’t it do to hold the engagement open till I can telegraph you from Paris? I go tomorrow & will telegraph you, say Thursday. Mrs. Clemens remains here, & so if the uncertainty won’t do, you can communicate with her.
References
- Columbia University, New York
- 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, Conway Papers, Columbia University (NNC).
L5 , 394.
The Conway Papers were acquired by NNC sometime after Conway’s death in 1907.
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