26 February 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: WU, UCCL 01198)
Yes sir! You shall know the figure; & to make sure it shan’t be forgotten, I’ll tell the manager of the affair to tell you also. If he forgets it I will kill him.1explanatory note
As this is honestly the last lecture I ever ever Ⓐemendationexpect to deliver, I would like to see it corral as much cash as possible.
I am under promise to give one other charity a lift, but I expect to succeed in begging off, as it is not in our town.2explanatory note
Bless you I don’t ever fool away any chances to hunt you & John Hay up. You ought to know that. I Ⓐemendationhad a whole family under my wing the last two times I was down there—so I didn’t even try to go to my meals.
In a letter not known to survive, Seaver had offered to report the result of Clemens’s upcoming charity lecture.
Unidentified.
References
- Madison Memorial Union Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 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 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
MS, Rare Book Department, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison (WU).
L6 , 395.
Norman D. Bassett, a Madison alumnus, owned the MS by October 1942. He donated his Mark Twain collection to WU on 9 July 1955.
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