31 August 1875 • Newport, R.I. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01258)
We return home about 7th or 8th. If sooner, will write you.1explanatory note
postmarked: newport r.i.Ⓐemendation aug 31
In a letter dated 27 August to the Virginia City Enterprise, Wright reported that Clemens “gave a reading the other night in Newport at a meeting of a dramatic society, and won much applause. He gave selections from his sketches and the like. He will return to Hartford in a few days” (Wright 1875 [bib14119]). Clemens’s performance occurred on Monday, 23 August. Wright was not actually in attendance: on noon that day he returned to Hartford from a three-day steamboat excursion to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket (Wright 1875 [bib00179]). Probably he wrote his report from the following in the Hartford Courant of 26 August: “Mr. Clemens, Mark Twain, gave a reading Monday evening of extracts from his own works at Newport at the meeting of the Bellevue Dramatic club. The Providence Journal says:—‘Mr. Twain delighted his hearers’” (“Brief Mention,” 2).
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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
- Wright, William [Dan De Quille, pseud.]. “Letter from Dan De Quille.” Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 8 September, 1. Letter dated 27 August. 1875
- Warner, Charles Dudley. “Passing the Cataract of the Nile.” Atlantic Monthly 36 (July): 1–11. Reprinted as chapter 19 in Warner 1876a [bib00186] 1875
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L6 , 530–531.
see Tufts Collection in Description of Provenance.
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