13 May 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence cards: CU-MARK, UCCL 01803)
Private.
Dear Sir: I remember you well, & most pleasantly, too. Do you remember the night journey
in the stage
coach? I ask because last year, in an out-of-the-way place in Germany, I came across
a particularly seedy old fellow of about
sixty, 
who said he was along, that night, (he was on the box,) & that the horses ran
away & were making for a precipice when he seized the reins & saved our lives—then
he struck me
for ten dollars. I paid him, though I intimated that I thought he charged rather high.
The truth is, I did not believe that old
man. I did not believe there were any precipices on the road; I did not believe the
horses ran away; 
I did not believe there were
any passengers along but you & me. Do you remember that man? I told him that if he
was with usⒶemendation, we probably saved his life. Then 
I tried to collect——but this was a failure.
Do you remember him? I can’t call him to mind.
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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 Manuscript Letters Now in the Mark Twain Papers. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 11 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, correspondence cards, CU-MARK.
MicroML, reel 4.
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