24? July 1883 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 02326)
I send this to beg that at least you folks will avoid this damned fool’s example. I shall never thoroughly like him again.
Your letter has just come and is most welcome for the good news it brings of your health, besides being very delightful itself.
I’mⒶemendation going to let Charley print part of it,—that part about English History—and I’m going to do it before you will have time to prevent me; so don’t fret a minute.
And what do you say to my putting into the Courant (with judicious editing, of course) an extract from Beard’s observations on Gerhardt? That I won’t do without your advice.
It is matter of local interest, and its publication might procure him a commission. It might be explained in a prefatory note that he has been assisted by friends in Hartford, without intimating who they are I can’t think of any harm that would come of it.
All the children (except Ed.) are home again and the dreary tranquillity we have suffered is over. Make my prostrations to Livy, and wish the girls a Merry Christmas from the uncle.
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
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Letters to Clemens. Edited by Paul Machlis, with the assistance of Deborah Ann Turner. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page atMTPO.] 1992
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, in pencil, written on Joseph H. Twichell to SLC, 22 July 1883, CU-MARK, UCLC 41612.
MicroPUL, reel 2.