To
Henry Lee
8 October 1873 • (2nd of 3) • London, England (MS: MoSW, UCCL 00970)
8 October 1873 • (2nd of 3) • London, England (MS: MoSW, UCCL 00970)
Wednesday.1explanatory note
Dear Lee—
Am writing to Dolby to send you the tickets.
I engage to dine Friday at 6 (I believe that is the hour) & if I fail to come you will know that it was impossible to come. Will you please drop me a line on Friday reminding me, for I have a whole world of things to think about now. We all send love.
Ys
Mark
Henry Lee Esq | 43 Holland street | Blackfriars Road, | S. E. postmarked: london-w Ⓐemendation 7 oc 9 73 and london-se a o oc 9 73
Explanatory Notes
1
The date of this letter is established by the postmark on its envelope—9 October, a Thursday.
Emendations and Textual Notes
References
- Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
- 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, George N. Meissner Collection, Washington University, St. Louis (MoSW).
L5 , 450; Chicago, lot 35.
donated to MoSW in about 1960 by the family of businessman and collector George N. Meissner (1872–1960).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.