29 October 1866 • Virginia City, Nev. Terr. (MS, in pencil, damage emended:
Stoddard and CU-MARK, UCCL 11953)
I am trying to get the theatre for a lecture Wednesday night (day after tomorrow) & if I succeed, I shall preach in Gold Hill Thursday, Silver City Friday perhaps, & Carson Saturday if you think I can get a reasonably good audience. What do you think of it. I ought to get a good house there after all the advertising you have been doing for me—& for which you must accept my warm & grateful thanks.
in ink: Harry Mighels EsqⒶemendation | Editor “Appeal” | Carson | Nev. top center: paid wells, fargo & co. over our california and coast routes. return address: if not delivered in ____ days return to _______ postmarked: wells, fargo & co virginia cty n.t. oct 29 envelope is twice docketed in pencil: Mark Twain
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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
- Berkove, Lawrence I. “Notes and Documents: A Recently Discovered Comstock Letter of Mark Twain.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 41 (Spring): 51–58. 1998
MS, in pencil, Stoddard, is copy-text for the letter, and MS, in ink, CU-MARK, is copy-text for the envelope; damage emended.
Berkove 1998, 56, partial publication. Newly published on MTPO, 2010.
“The letter . . . has been kept in the Davis family and passed into the possession of Sylvia Crowell Stoddard, granddaughter of Sam Davis” (Berkove 1998, 51). The envelope was purchased for CU-MARK from Serendipity Books in November 2006.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.