24 July 1881 • Branford, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01988)
Yes indeed, I will come, with pleasure, though I don’t mind telling you that Ashfield’s commercialⒶemendation shrewdness doesn’t seem to me to be quite up to the H New England mark. The free scholarships should have been conferred upon Warner’s descendants. The credit would have been the same, & the expense nominal; whereas, as the thing stands now, she has done a pretty risky thing.
From August 7th till Sept. 15th, our tribe will be in Elmira, N. Y.; & as far as I can see there will be no choice in dates, as in my case. Any date you choose between now & the 10th September will suit me.
I shall [be] mighty glad to be the guest of yourself & Mr. Curtis.
Prof. C. E. Norton | Ashfield | Mass. return address: return to s. l. clemens, hartford, conn., if not delivered within 10 days. postmarked: new haven conn. Ⓐemendation remainder of postmark illegible
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, CU-MARK.
MicroML, reel 4.
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