To
Bayard Taylor
28 February 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: NIC, UCCL 01538)
28 February 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: NIC, UCCL 01538)
Hartford Feb. 28.
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My Dear Mr. Taylor—
Your appointment was as welcome news to us as it was to the whole country—& now comes a report that you are to sail with your family in the Holsatia, April 11, a ship in which we engaged a couple of rooms a week or ten days ago. If that report is true, please don’t change your mind & leave us poor German-ignorant people to cross the ocean with nobody to talk to.
Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens
References
- 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
- Schultz, John Richie. “New Letters of Mark Twain.” American Literature 8 (March): 47–51. 1936
MS, correspondence card, Bayard Taylor Papers, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, NIC.
Schultz 1936, 47.