To James R. Osgood
31 October 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: PU, UCCL 02078)
31 October 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: PU, UCCL 02078)
Hartford Oct. 31/81.
Dear Osgood—
O, I see. Yes, if the book can be set up in 48 hours, in Canada, there won’t be any occasion to set any of it in Boston.
I could leave here the evening (or even the morning of Nov. 27) pretty conveniently. It is Mrs. Clemens’s birthday—so I would rather not leave the day before if the 27th would answer just as well.
Ys Truly
S L Clemens
I am practicing. Your disparaging fling does not terrify me.
Would like to have Voltaire’s “Age of Louis XIV” if you can scare it up in the English tongue.
References
- University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Philadelphia, Pa.
- 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
MS, PU.