To Mary P. (Mollie) Fairbanks
16 April 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: Axelrod, UCCL 09115)
16 April 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: Axelrod, UCCL 09115)
Hartford, Apl. 16.
slcNow Mollie dear,
If you’ll come here,
And stay a week,
And—and—
I can’t think of anything that will rhyme; but never mind, I’ve got a man waiting for me—a stranger—a stranger whom I am going to kill—so I am eager to get at it, & will not delay for rhymes—you just give me date & train & I will be at the station to fetch you. Will you? With love to you & Charley,
Saml C
References
- Collection of Todd M. Axelrod, Gallery of History
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, correspondence card, collection of Todd M. Axelrod.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Offered for sale in July 1979 by David L. O’Neal.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.