To Charles R. Deacon and the Clover Club
3 January 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 09948)
3 January 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 09948)
Hartford, Jan. 3/84.
C. R. Deacon, Esq
Secretary:
Dear Sir:
I have unconscionably delayed my answer to the Committee’s kind invitation for the 17th inst., in the hope that I might find a way to accept; but business & social complications having frustrated this hope, I am compelled, to my sincere regret, to decline.
Very Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens
References
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, collection of Todd M. Axelrod.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
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