Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Collection of Todd M. Axelrod, Gallery of History ([Axelrod])

Cue: "Don't be in any hurry about announcing the <i>title</i>"

Source format: "MS facsimile"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: AB | RHH 2024-02-21

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

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To George L. Fall
To James Redpath
27 June 1871 • (1st of 2) • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 00621)
Elmira
Dr. F 1explanatory note Redpath—

Don’t be in any hurry about announcing the title of my lecture. Just say “To be announced.”2explanatory note

Because, I wrote a new lecture to-day, entitled simply “D. L. H.” During the month of July I’ll decide which I like best—& that one only will I use.

Ys
Mark.

letter docketed: boston lyceum bureau. redpath & fall. jun 29 1871 and L and Twain Mark | Elmira N.Y. | June 29 ’71

Textual Commentary
27 June 1871 • To George L. Fall To James Redpath • (1st of 2) • Elmira, N.Y. • UCCL 00621
Source text(s):

MS, collection of Todd M. Axelrod.

Previous Publication:

L4 , 413–414; Will M. Clemens 1900, 28; Horner, 166–67, with omission; “Letters to James Redpath,” Mark Twain Quarterly 5 (Winter-Spring 1942): 20.

Provenance:

The present location of the MS, owned by Axelrod in 1983, is not known.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

Fall, Clemens remembered, was temporarily away from the Boston Lyceum Bureau (15 June 71 to Redpath, n. 1click to open link).

2 

See 15 June 71 to Redpath, n. 2click to open link, and 7–8 July 71 to Redpathclick to open link.

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