To
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
15 January 1879 • Munich, Germany (Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine of correspondence card:
CU-MARK, UCCL 12752)
15 January 1879 • Munich, Germany (Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine of correspondence card:
CU-MARK, UCCL 12752)
Dear Aldrich—When a man has been absorbedly meddling for half an hour trying to get into a dainty thing which he takes to be a lady’s jewel-box, & all at once it lets go & blows the top of his head off, he feelsⒶemendation a brisk sense of surprise. IⒶemendation had to go back & read that whole bird story over again to see how the trick was done & why the mechanism didn’t show before. Bayard Taylor was a lovely character—we all felt your poem.
WithⒶemendation kindest remembrances to Mrs. Aldrich,
Yrs
Mark.
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
Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine, CU-MARK. Paine or his typist indicated that the letter was written on a “(Card.)” Clemens most often used a monogrammed correspondence card during this period and the transcript has been emended to include the monogram.
See Paine Transcripts in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.