To
Mary Mason Fairbanks
31 October 1868 • New York, N.Y. (MS: CSmH, UCCL 02761)
31 October 1868 • New York, N.Y. (MS: CSmH, UCCL 02761)
Don’t worry—I’m all right. I’ll be in Cleveland Nov. 8—lecture there Nov. 17—so you can get ready to scratch. I’ll expunge every word you want scratched out, cheerfully.1explanatory note Love to all. (In a great hurry,)
Your CubⒶemendation
MarkⒶemendation.
P.S.—I Some few castles in Spain going up. I wrote an awful letter—but followed with another that set it all right. The answer was satisfactory to the subscriber.2explanatory note
Mark.
Explanatory Notes
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ Everett . . . 31. ● a vertical brace spans the right margin of the place and date lines
References
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif.
- 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
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 2: 1867–1868. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, Richard Bucci, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1990
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks. Edited by Dixon Wecter. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library. 1949
MS, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. (CSmH, call no. HM 14235).
L2 , 277; MTMF , 47.
see Huntington Library, p. 512.
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