3 December 1873 • London, England (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00991)
Livy darling, I am as busy as I can be, day & night, revamping & memorizing my “Roughing It” lecture, because I want to use it next week.1explanatory note After that I want to try a reading here if I get time to prepare it.2explanatory note I Ⓐemendationwon’t write you more, now, except to say that I love you with all my heart.
Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Forest street | Hartford | Conn in upper left corner: America. | rule postmarked: london • w i de 3 73 and new york dec 18 paid all.
Clemens delivered “Roughing It on the Silver Frontier” from 8 through 20 December. He had previously used essentially the same lecture while on tour in the East and Midwest in December 1871 and early 1872 (“Mark Twain’s New Humorous Lecture,” London Daily News, 6, 15, 20 Dec 73, 4; 2 Jan 72 to Redpath, n. 1click to open link).
No such “reading” took place.
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 493–494; LLMT , 364, brief paraphrase.
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.