1? August 1878 • Baden Baden?, Germany (MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 01581)
pages 9 and 10 only; first paragraph canceled with four vertical rules and horizontal rule below
in Heidelberg on the 6th, & the entire castle will be illuminated with those colored fires which we use on Fourth of July nights. This is said to be a very wonderful spectacle. We shall carry umbrellas; then it will not rain.
It certainly is no harm for me to take a journey at a friend’s expense if he invites me; & it isn’t any harm for Joe to take a trip at my expense if I invite him—but how do such things get into the newspapers?—or why should they be worth printing, anyway? I bullyrag Joe into coming over here,—perfectly aware that nineteen-twentieths of the pecuniary profit & advantage are on my side,—to say nothing of the social advantage,—& by jingsⒶemendation, one would imagine, from the newspapers that Joe is the party receiving a favor. I could live a whole year in Europe out of the clean cash I have made out of Joe Twichell; & behold when I try to hand over to him a trivial share of the money which he has lavished upon me, people imagine I am spending my money on him instead of his own. There is something most decidedly unjust about this thing.
References
- Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, CtY-BR. Only two MS pages (9’10) are known to survive.
MicroPUL, reel 1.