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Source: Epoch: The Life of Steele MacKaye, Genius of the Theatre, in Relation to His Times & Contemporaries. 2 vols. New York: Boni and Liveright ([])

Cue: "You must excuse"

Source format: "MS facsimile"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v3

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To James K. Medbery
20 November 1869 • Boston, Mass. (MS facsimile: MacKaye, 1:plate 21, UCCL 00375)
Boston, Nov. 20.
Friend Medbery—

You must excuse this delay, but I couldn’t get time to answer sooner.

No, I can’t write the Christmas book at any price, because I shall be traveling every day & lecturing every night till that time & beyond. Much obliged to you, though.1explanatory note

Shall be in New York, Nov. 30, & talk in Brooklyn Dec. 1 & Dec. 4. Can’t you call on a fellow?

Faithfully yrs
Mark Twain.

Textual Commentary
20 November 1869 • To James K. Medbery • Boston, Mass. • UCCL 00375
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, MacKaye, 1:plate 21.

Previous Publication:

L3 , 400; none known other than the copy-text.

Provenance:

The present location of the MS is not known.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 

Medbery had solicited the holiday book for the “Authors’ Department” of his American Literary Bureau (see 21 Sept 69 to Crane, n. 2click to open link).

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