8 September 1878 • Geneva, Switzerland (MS: NIC, UCCL 01594)
I have learned the German language & forgotten it again; so I resume English once more. I have just returned from a walking-trip to Mont Blanc—which I was intending to ascend, but was obliged to give it up the idea, as I had gone too early & there was still snow on it. I find your letter here; if you will be so kind as to forward Slote’s letter to the above address I think it will be in time to catch me—& in any case I will make it arrangements to have it follow me. (I am going to try to enclose the necessary stamps in this, but if I forget it—however, I won’t.)
We have been poking around slowly through Switzerland for a month; a week hence we go to Venice—to Rome & other places later; & we are booked for Munich Nov. 10 (for the winter.) One of these days I am going to whet up my German again & take a run to Berlin, & have a talk with you in that fine old tongue.
References
- Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N.Y.
- 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, Bayard Taylor Papers, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, NIC.
Schultz 1936, 49–50.