To
James R. Osgood
19 October 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: Axelrod, UCCL 10668)
19 October 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: Axelrod, UCCL 10668)
Oct 19.
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My Dear Osgood—
Am very much obliged. Now look here, Mrs Clemens & I require that you bide in this shanty while in Hartford. Fetch yourself up in a hack, if you should be in the humor to waive ceremony; otherwise, telegmraph me what train you’ll arrive by, & I will waltz down after you with private carriage, & will throw an amount of style around you that will make you say, yourself, that you wouldn’t trade places with a stud-horse.
Yrs Ever
Mark.
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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, correspondence card, collection of Todd M. Axelrod.
Alta California Bookstore catalog, unknown date, no. 81, item 10, partial publication; Pepper and Stern catalog, 1984, List C, item 209; MicroPUL, reel 1.
Offered by Alta California Bookstore at an unknown date; offered for sale in 1984 by Pepper and Stern; owned by Axelrod in 1986.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.