To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
10 April 1884 • New York, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: MH-H, UCCL 02949)
10 April 1884 • New York, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: MH-H, UCCL 02949)
N.Y. Apl. 10.
My Dear T. B.—
Won’t you please say to Mrs. T. B., that the fact has recurred to us that we are engaged to dine with friends in Hartford Wednesday evening, & so are forced to defer the trip to Boston till Thursday? The engagement I speak of was made some little time ago, & was of so positive a nature that we cannot venture to excuse ourselves from it; & besides, we are to meet some strangers who will be unmeetable later. This thing makes an unpalatable disappointment for us, since it cuts off a day from our Boston spree with you.
We shall leave for Boston about noon, Thursday, per Boston & Albany road, & reach your house about 4, I should think.
Yrs Ever
Mark.
References
- Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, MH-H (shelf mark bMS Am 1429, 1159).
MicroPUL, reel 2.