To
Whitelaw Reid
22 February 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: DLC, UCCL 00581)
22 February 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: DLC, UCCL 00581)
Buffalo, 22d.
Friend Reid:
I thank your heartily for saving me that gratuitous offense Ⓐemendation snub in the Tribune, & shall be glad to choke a slur for you if I ever get a chance. I guess this emanated from some bummer who owes me borrowed money & can’t forgive the offence.1explanatory note
My wife is still dangerously ill with typhoid fever, & we watch with her night & day hardly daring to prophecy what the result will be.
Warm regards to Hay & Hazard.2explanatory note
Yrs Ever
Mark.
Explanatory Notes
1
Reid’s letter to Clemens is lost and nothing is known of the “slur” he intercepted.
2
John Hay and John Rose Greene Hassard.
Emendations and Textual Notes
MS, Whitelaw Reid Papers, Library of Congress (DLC).
L4 , 336.
The Whitelaw Reid Papers (part of the Papers of the Reid Family) were donated to DLC between 1953 and 1957 by Helen Rogers Reid (Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.