per Charles Warren Stoddard
8 December 1873 • London, England (MS: StElMCL, UCCL 09207)
8th Dec 1873.
Thanks for the tickets to the club dinner.1explanatory note
I shall try to be 1explanatory note there about 10 P. M which is as early as I can get away from my Lecture.
letter docketed: London 8th Decr 1873 | Mark Twain | Festival
An unidentified member of the London Morayshire Club had sent Clemens tickets to its second anniversary festival on 11 December. The club carried out charitable enterprises to benefit the people of Moray, a county in northeast Scotland (“London Morayshire Club,” Elgin [Scotland] Courant, 16 Dec 73, no page).
Clemens canceled Stoddard’s “try to” and retraced his “be,” possibly for emphasis. Clemens did in fact attend (11 and 12 Dec 73 to OLCclick to open link).
References
- Moray Council, Libraries and Information Services, Elgin, Scotland [formerly Uk6, UkElgM]
- 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 5: 1872–1873. Edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1997
MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, which is in the Technical and Leisure Services Department, The Moray Council, Elgin, Scotland (StElMCL).
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