26 February 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: WU, UCCL 01198)
Yes sir! You shall know the figure; & to make sure it shan’t be forgotten, I’ll tell the manager of the affair to tell you also. If he forgets it I will kill him.1explanatory note
As this is honestly the last lecture I ever ever Ⓐemendationexpect to deliver, I would like to see it corral as much cash as possible.
I am under promise to give one other charity a lift, but I expect to succeed in begging off, as it is not in our town.2explanatory note
Bless you I don’t ever fool away any chances to hunt you & John Hay up. You ought to know that. I Ⓐemendationhad a whole family under my wing the last two times I was down there—so I didn’t even try to go to my meals.
MS, Rare Book Department, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison (WU).
L6 , 395.
Norman D. Bassett, a Madison alumnus, owned the MS by October 1942. He donated his Mark Twain collection to WU on 9 July 1955.
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