13 November 1874 • New Boston, Conn. (Transcript: Twichell, 1:18, UCCL 01167)
We arrive by rail at about 7 oclock. The first of a series of grand Ⓐemendationannual pedestrian tours from Hartford to Boston to be performed by us, will take place next year. 1explanatory note
In his journal, Twichell recorded the circumstances of this telegram and the next one, to Redpath: “At New Boston we got into a hot country store, and rested—oh, how luxuriously!—from our labors. There Mark wrote telegrams to Redpath and Howells which we sent from Webster, the first station beyond New B.” (Twichell, 1:18). For Howells’s reply, see 14 Nov 74 to OLC, n. 1click to open link.
Transcript, handwritten by Twichell, in Twichell, 1:18, Joseph H. Twichell Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR). Paine’s variant texts (see Previous publication), whose source is unclear, have been rejected as less accurate, since they were not contemporaneous with Clemens’s telegram. Twichell’s self-correction, reported below, has not been transcribed in the text.
L6 , 280–281; Paine 1912, 250; MTB , 1:528; MTHL , 1:36.
Twichell’s papers were passed on to his children. Although CtY received some items in 1951 from Joseph H. Twichell and Mrs. Charles Ives, his son and daughter, the main collection was donated in 1967 by Charles P. Twichell, his grandson.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.