12 January 1878 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, correspondence card: CtHMTH, UCCL 01523)
Your letter has overtaken me at this point on my travels, & I hoped the paper might come, also, but doubtless it will be held in Hartford till I return.
I, too, have heard, in roundabout ways, that I was going to connect myself with a newspaper & help edit it., but I do not believe a word of it. Experience has taught me to put no confidence in a report when I know it to be untrue. Very well—knowing this one to be not only untrue but absolutely & permanently impossible, I have not hesitated to disbelieve it.
With many thanks for the pleasant & cordial things you have said, I am
Miss Kate V. Austin | Richmond | Indiana postmarked: n.y. &. horn. r.p.o. jan 12 ◇◇◇Ⓐemendation and richmond ◇◇◇◇ jan ◇◇ ◇◇◇◇Ⓐemendation
Mark Twain
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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, correspondence card, Cyril Clemens Collection, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Donated in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.