4 December 1884 • Syracuse, N.Y. (MS: OClW, UCCL 03047)
All these days I have been feeling the thanks I owe you & your family for a thoroughly enjoyable night, & for a hospitality which neither oppressed nor made afraid; & if I haven’t voiced these thanks before, it is only because we have been kept too busy by the platform & the railroad. Be piously grateful that as yet you are permitted to remain with your household & under the shelter of your delightful home; & do all your praying now, for a time is coming when you will have to go railroading & platforming, & then you will find you cannot pray any more because you will have only just time to swear enough.
Please remember me gratefully to Mrs. Nast & to all the scions of your house, & also to their sire, & believe me
References
- Case Western Reserve University, Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland, Ohio
- 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
- Paine, Albert Bigelow. Th. Nast: His Period and His Pictures. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1904
MS, Frances W. and H. Jack Lang Letter Collection, Department of Special Collections, OClW.
Paine 1904, 513; The Best Practitioners of the Art of Letter Writing: A Catalogue of The Frances W. and H. Jack Lang letter Collection (Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University Libraries, n.d.), p. 24–5, transcript and facsimile.
The Lang Collection was donated in 1977.
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