12 January 1878 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, correspondence card: CtHMTH, UCCL 01523)
Your letter has overtaken me at this point on my travels, & I hoped the paper might come, also, but doubtless it will be held in Hartford till I return.
I, too, have heard, in roundabout ways, that I was going to connect myself with a newspaper & help edit it., but I do not believe a word of it. Experience has taught me to put no confidence in a report when I know it to be untrue. Very well—knowing this one to be not only untrue but absolutely & permanently impossible, I have not hesitated to disbelieve it.
With many thanks for the pleasant & cordial things you have said, I am
Miss Kate V. Austin | Richmond | Indiana postmarked: n.y. &. horn. r.p.o. jan 12 ◇◇◇Ⓐemendation and richmond ◇◇◇◇ jan ◇◇ ◇◇◇◇Ⓐemendation
Mark Twain
MS, correspondence card, Cyril Clemens Collection, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Donated in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.
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