6? February 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: ViU, UCCL 08584)
enclosures of wedding cards 1explanatory note
on the inside envelope: Chas Warren Stoddard Tell me—what is the matter with Bret Hare HarteⒶemendation?—why all these airs?2explanatory note Mark. on the flap: lc
The cards are not known to survive: see 6? Feb 70 to Barnesclick to open link.
Specific evidence of Harte’s “airs” has not been found. Clemens’s irritation with his old friend stemmed at least in part from the “most daintily contemptuous & insulting letter” Harte had sent him in September 1869, resenting his difficulty in getting a review copy of The Innocents Abroad ( L3 , 355–56; 26 Nov 70 to Webbclick to open link).
References
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- 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
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 3: 1869. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Dahlia Armon. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1992
MS, envelope only, Clem D. Johnston Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).
L4 , 61–62; Goodspeed’s Book Shop 1924, item 248d.
The envelope, not among the offerings in the sales of Stoddard’s library in 1909 and 1910, was sold in 1924 by Goodspeed’s.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.