To
Jacob H. Burrough
16 July 1874 • Elmira, N.Y. (Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine: CU-MARK, UCCL 12800)
16 July 1874 • Elmira, N.Y. (Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine: CU-MARK, UCCL 12800)
Elmira, N.Y.,
July 16.Ⓐemendation
July 16.Ⓐemendation
My DearⒶemendation Jake:
Have just received two papers from your town. Are the Misses Ida & Emma Burroughs any kin to you? And who is Dean?—my old mud-clerk comrade?
My boy, don’t you ever come East? I wish you would drop in on us next winter. (We are house-building & shant be well settled till the middle of the fall.)
Why don’t you die?—Are you going to live forever? You must be along about 80 or 90 now.
Yrs Ever,
Saml L. Clemens.
We lived in the same house with Disraeli a couple of months in London —it kept reminding me of how you used to admire his earlier novels.
We are spending the summer at Elmira, N.Y.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
Dear ●
capital ‘D’ typed over lowercase
‘d’
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.
Newly published on MTPO, 2010.
See Paine Transcripts in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.