To
Henry Lee
8 October 1873 (3rd of 3) • London, England (MS: ViU, UCCL 11812)
8 October 1873 (3rd of 3) • London, England (MS: ViU, UCCL 11812)
Wednesday.
P. S. I have ordered the 2 seats for 6 lectures, but you speak as if you meant to come 6 times! Bless your heart it is the same lecture repeated word for word 6 times. I thought I ought in simple kindness to tell you.1explanatory note
Ys
Mark.
Explanatory Notes
1
This postscript, clearly an addendum to the previous letter to Lee, was probably mailed in a separate envelope. Clemens wrote it on a new sheet of paper, in spite of the fact that he had inscribed the earlier letter on the first page of a four-page folder, leaving three blank pages available for a postscript.
References
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- 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, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).
L5 , 451; City Book Auction, lot 144.
The MS, laid in a first edition copy of Mark Twain’s Speeches (Harper and Brothers, 1910), was sold in 1954 to Seven Gables Bookshop (New York City) as part of the collection of Byron Price (City Book Auction); it was deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 16 April 1960.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.