To Unidentified
18 October 1872 • London, England (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 11320)
18 October 1872 • London, England (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 11320)
langham hotel, portland place, london. w.
Oct. 18.
Oct. 18.
Sir:
I think it will be 2 or 3 weeks before I shall really know whether I can lecture in Great Britain or not.1explanatory note So I am obliged to be thus indefiniteⒶemendation in my reply. I certainly shall lecture about 8 or 10 times in this country if other & more necessary business shall permit.
Ys Truly
Samℓ. L.
Clemens.
Explanatory Notes
1
See 15 Sept 72 to OLCclick to open link. Clemens’s plans were uncertain while he awaited a reply from Olivia to his letter of 12 October.
Emendations and Textual Notes
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
- 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 was owned in 1985 by Todd M. Axelrod, who provided a photocopy to the Mark Twain Papers.
L5 , 197.