To James R. Osgood
18 September 1882 • Elmira, N.Y. (Transcript, letter in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 02269)
18 September 1882 • Elmira, N.Y. (Transcript, letter in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 02269)
Sept. 18/82
Dear Osgood—
Welcome home! I have been half dead with malaria ever since you left; & these last few days am two-thirds dead. I work all the time, but accomplish very little—sometimes as little as 200 words in 5 hours.
What is worse than all is that I find I still lack about 30,000 words, whereas a few days ago I thought it was only a third of that—dismal miscalculation!.Ⓐemendation I shall peg along, day by day, but shan’t be through when we leave for home 2 weeks hence.
Truly yrs
S. L. C.
Poor Lem Gray died of his injuries—was buried Aug. 23d. The others got well.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ miscalculation!. ● sic
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
- Hill, Hamlin, ed. Mark Twain’s Letters to His Publishers, 1867–1894. Edited by Hamlin Hill. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1967
Transcript, letter in pencil, CU-MARK.
MTLP, 157–58.
The transcript was made by Joseph Rosenberg of Chicago, Illinois, in 1943.
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