To Charles A. Dana
12 May 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 02978)
12 May 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 02978)
Hartford, May 12/84.
Dear Mr. Dana:
I am busy writing up my recent experiences on a bicycle, now, but when I finish that I will sit down & take a solid think & see if it is in me to write a short story of an acceptable sort. Until which time beliebe ich zu Befehl
Ys Truly
S L Clemens
I want to write it
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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Manuscript Letters Now in the Mark Twain Papers. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 11 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
Transcript, CU-MARK. The transcript is entirely in the hand of Lansing C. Bailey of the Utica (N.Y.) Observer, who sent it to Clemens’s biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine. Paine’s docket is on the verso of the transcript. The location of the original letter is unknown.
MicroML, reel 5.