20 February 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CLjC, UCCL 11540)
Confound it, my Boston trip is knocked in the head. It would take so long to explain why, that I’ll not attempt it, but only send regrets, do some private cussing, & wish the dinner party a happy time & Aldrich & family godsend & a glorious tour.1explanatory note
Clemens again declined Osgood’s invitation to a dinner at the Nautilus Club, now rescheduled for 24 February (12 Feb 75 to Osgood, n. 6click to open link). Aldrich and his wife sailed for Europe on 24 March, leaving their two young sons with relatives. They toured England, France, Italy, and Germany before returning home in October (Greenslet, 117–19; Lilian W. Aldrich, 161–62).
References
- The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011.
- 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 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
- Greenslet, Ferris. The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1908
- Aldrich, Lilian W. Crowding Memories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press. 1920
MS, James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California (CLjC).
L6 , 391–392.
The MS was owned by John L. Feldman in 1990; CLjC purchased it from Joseph Rubinfine in May 1990.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.