13 November 1874 • New Boston, Conn. (Transcript: Twichell, 1:18, UCCL 01167)
We arrive by rail at about 7 oclock. The first of a series of grand Ⓐemendationannual pedestrian tours from Hartford to Boston to be performed by us, will take place next year. 1explanatory note
In his journal, Twichell recorded the circumstances of this telegram and the next one, to Redpath: “At New Boston we got into a hot country store, and rested—oh, how luxuriously!—from our labors. There Mark wrote telegrams to Redpath and Howells which we sent from Webster, the first station beyond New B.” (Twichell, 1:18). For Howells’s reply, see 14 Nov 74 to OLC, n. 1click to open link.
References
- Twichell, Joseph H. “Personal Journal.” MS of 12 volumes, Joseph H. Twichell Collection, CtY-BR[bib10615]. 1874–1916
- 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
- Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn.
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
- Paine, Albert Bigelow. “Mark Twain: Some Chapters from an Extraordinary Life. Ninth Paper.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 125 (July): 249–63. 1912
- Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain: A Biography. By Albert Bigelow Paine. 3 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers. [Volume numbers in citations are to this edition; page numbers are the same in all editions.] 1912
- MTHL. Mark Twain–Howells Letters. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson, with the assistance of Frederick Anderson. 2 vols. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1960
Transcript, handwritten by Twichell, in Twichell, 1:18, Joseph H. Twichell Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR). Paine’s variant texts (see Previous publication), whose source is unclear, have been rejected as less accurate, since they were not contemporaneous with Clemens’s telegram. Twichell’s self-correction, reported below, has not been transcribed in the text.
L6 , 280–281; Paine 1912, 250; MTB , 1:528; MTHL , 1:36.
Twichell’s papers were passed on to his children. Although CtY received some items in 1951 from Joseph H. Twichell and Mrs. Charles Ives, his son and daughter, the main collection was donated in 1967 by Charles P. Twichell, his grandson.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.