To
Thomas Fitch
10? July 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (Fitch 1903, UCCL 10553)
10? July 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (Fitch 1903, UCCL 10553)
. . . .
Now try &Ⓐemendation not put the audience to sleep, & don’t be the heedless cause of my first lie.1explanatory note
. . . .
Explanatory Notes
1
Clemens probably enclosed an excerpt from, or copy of, the preceding letter to Redpath. Fitch’s 1870 lecture was a success (3 Dec 70 to Redpath, n. 2click to open link).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
& ●
and twice
References
- Fitch, Thomas. “Some Old Friends.” San Francisco Call, 4 October, 14. 1903
- 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
- Fitch, Thomas. “Fitch Recalls Mark Twain Bonanza Times.” San Francisco Chronicle, 30 March. 1919
- Fitch, Thomas. Western Carpetbagger: The Extraordinary Memoirs of “Senator” Thomas Fitch. Edited by Eric N. Moody. Reno: University of Nevada Press. 1978
Fitch 1903.
L4 , 171; Fitch 1919 and Fitch 1978, 52.