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11 October 1873 • London, England (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00971)
11 October 1873 • London, England (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00971)
Langham Hotel
London,
11th
Dear Sir:
I thank you very much for your kind invitation, but am engaged to lecture every night next week at Hanover Su Ⓐemendation Square Rooms, & leave for America via Liverpool on Sunday.1explanatory note
Ys Truly
Samℓ. L.
Clemens.
letter docketed: Mark Twain. and Clemens | (Mark Twain).
Explanatory Notes
1
The Clemenses were scheduled to leave London on Sunday, 19 October, for Liverpool, where Clemens was to lecture the following evening. They sailed for America on Tuesday, 21 October, on the Batavia, again commanded by their friend John Mouland (“Latest Ship News,” New York Tribune, 3 Nov 73, 5).
Emendations and Textual Notes
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 , 451–452.
donated to CtHMTH in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.
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