To
Henry Lee
7 October 1873 • London, England (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00968)
7 October 1873 • London, England (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00968)
Tuesday Night
Dear Lee—
I begin Monday at Hanover Square Rooms1explanatory note & lecture every night during the week. Talk it up with your friends! Come & see me when you get a chance. We send warm regards.
Yrs
Mark.
Explanatory Notes
1
This concert hall, opened in 1774, was an elegant establishment famous for its concerts, at which luminaries such as Haydn, Liszt, and Paganini had performed. Its “ceiling was domed and the walls were decorated with paintings by West, Cipriani, Gainsborough and others” (Weinreb and Hibbert, 362–63). The building was demolished in 1900.
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 449–450.
The MS was sold by John Howell Books in 1972 and donated to CU-MARK in 1973.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.
See Appert Collection in Description of Provenance.