1 September 1883 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: WEU, UCCL 04139)
Welcome home, & drink hearty! We strike Hartford about the 15th of this month, & shall soon afterward hope to see you.
All right, shan’t need that money till first of October—may need it then. But send me the statement—I want [to] see how bad the failure really is.
The thing I am grinding at, now, is my long series of history-games, the which I caveated in the patent office the other day. They’ll go, I judge.
I’ve finished “1,002” (Arabian Nights Tale,) & likewise “The Adventures of Huck Finn;” had written 50,000 words on it before; & this summer it took 70,000 to complete it.
We expect to spend Sept. 13, 14, & 15 at the Brunswick, New York—don’t forget it if you are down.
letter docketed: james r. osgood & co. boston. sep 3 1883
References
- University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wis.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, WEU.
MicroPUL, reel 2.