To
Adolph H. Sutro
per Telegraph Operator
24 August 1871 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NhD, UCCL 03649)
per Telegraph Operator
24 August 1871 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NhD, UCCL 03649)
the western union telegraph companyⒶemendation.
6 dated Hartford Conn 187 1 received at 11 15 Aug 24 to Adolph Sulro Ⓐemendation Gilsey House 1explanatory note When do you sail? how long shall you remain in NY when leave & whither Saml L Clemens
155 Asylum St 2explanatory note
☞this telegram has just been received at the office in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . where any reply should be sent.
15 Pdy H direct wires.
6 dated Hartford Conn 187 1 received at 11 15 Aug 24 to Adolph Sulro Ⓐemendation Gilsey House 1explanatory note When do you sail? how long shall you remain in NY when leave & whither Saml L Clemens
155 Asylum St 2explanatory note
☞this telegram has just been received at the office in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . where any reply should be sent.
15 Pdy H direct wires.
telegram docketed: 1871. | Samℓ L Clemens | Hartford. | Aug 24.
Explanatory Notes
1
Sutro might have sent his New York address in the letter that reached Clemens on 19 August, or he may have wired him after his 22 August arrival at the Gilsey House, which had its own telegraph office.
2
Three subsidiaries of the American Publishing Company—Belknap and Bliss, Richard W. Bliss, and the Columbian Book Company—were housed at this address. Clemens was probably using an office at one of them to work on Roughing It (Geer 1871, 226; Hill, 16).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
the . . . company. ●
words on telegram blank identical to those reported in the commentary
for 7 Nov 70 to Langdonclick to open link
Ⓐ
Sulro ●
sic
References
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
- 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 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1995
- Geer, Elihu, comp. Geer’s Hartford City Directory, for 1871–72: Containing Every Kind of Desirable Information for Citizens and Strangers; Together with a Classified Business Directory. Hartford: Elihu Geer. 1871
- Hill, Hamlin. Mark Twain and Elisha Bliss. Columbia: University of Missouri Press 1964
MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Dartmouth College
L4 , 448–449.
Donated to NhD in 1981 by Dr. Joseph H. Placak.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.