22 November 1879 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile and MS: CU-MARK and CLjC, UCCL 01723)
You did it up admirably—I knew you would. I have written Dawson & asked him to name a date a couple of weeks hence for me to accept or decline on—for I can’t tell till then.
If you are stopping at the Windsor, old man, it won’t be quite right for us to pile in on you as guests, but we’ll stop at the same house, anyway, if we come.
A boy! Well, perseverance will tell! Madame & I congratulate you both, heartily—also the boy.
I’m glad you are building a carriage, too, for I hate those dam horse-cars there.
I’m just about to start in on another ten thousand dollar venture—a patent. Want to come in?—in case it continues to look good? Slote is to run it.
Gov. Frank Fuller | Windsor Hotel | New York | N. Y. in lower left corner: Dern that address—I forgot it again. Mark. postmarked: hartford conn. nov 24 12 m and new-york rec’d nov 24 6 pm 79 and h 11 24 8-p
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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 facsimile, CU-MARK, is copy-text for the letter, and MS, CLjC, is copy-text for the envelope.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
CLjC purchased the MS envelope in July 1966 as part of a collection of Frank Fuller correspondence.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.