10 September 1881 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 02034)
All right, Brer Whitmo’, telegram received. I’ve merely taken the same action as before: written Hubbard to sell for me whenever he sells for you, & in the same proportion. I suppose the corner is in D & R G—is that the one?
It as been orrible weather ere, otter than we’ve ever seen it before on the summit of this ill. But we shan’t complain, as long as it isn’t killing the President. Hubbard has a lot of orders on his books which I really begin to think he’ll have to get engraved on brass, so that they will last to “maturity.” They read thus—he told me so, himself: “Buy me such-&-such a stock when the President dies.”
I reckon we shan’t get a chance to go to Indian Neck, for we are in a good deal of a sweat to get home & sail in on the finishing-up business there. Weal shall start home about Sept. 20 if the weather shall have cooled off a little by that time.
Aŭfwiedersehen!
F. G. Whitmore | Montowese house | Branford | Conn return address: return to s. l. clemens, hartford, conn., if not delivered within 10 days. postmarked: elmira n.y. sep 11 5pm and branford conn. sep 12
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.
See Franklin Gray Whitmore Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.