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Source: Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn ([CtHMTH])

Cue: "I thank you"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v5

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To Unidentified
11 October 1873 • London, England (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00971)
Langham Hotel
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Dear Sir:

I thank you very much for your kind invitation, but am engaged to lecture every night next week at Hanover Su Ⓐemendation Square Rooms, & leave for America via Liverpool on Sunday.1explanatory note

Ys Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens.

letter docketed: Mark Twain. and Clemens | (Mark Twain).

Textual Commentary
11 October 1873 • To Unidentified • London, England • UCCL 00971
Source text(s):

MS, Cyril Clemens Collection, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).

Previous Publication:

L5 , 451–452.

Provenance:

donated to CtHMTH in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.

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

Explanatory Notes
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The Clemenses were scheduled to leave London on Sunday, 19 October, for Liverpool, where Clemens was to lecture the following evening. They sailed for America on Tuesday, 21 October, on the Batavia, again commanded by their friend John Mouland (“Latest Ship News,” New York Tribune, 3 Nov 73, 5).

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  Su Square ●  Su
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