To Charles Erskine Scott Wood
5–9 August 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, holograph facsimile correspondence card: ViU, UCCL 02243)
5–9 August 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, holograph facsimile correspondence card: ViU, UCCL 02243)
OVER Ⓐemendation
canceled with crisscrossing lines:
Hartford, Wednesday.
slc
Dear Sir:
In reply I am obliged to say that I have quitted the platform permanently. With thanks for the compliment of your invitation I am
Truly Yours
Mark Twain
on the verso:
I’d like it first-rate, Wood, & so would Twichell. The one you sent here for signature is the only one I’ve seen.
Raining here, now; & cold as Greenland!
Ys Sincerely
S L Clemens
Emendations and Textual Notes
MS, holograph facsimile correspondence card, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, ViU. Wood later annotated the card: “I think this refers to a proof of Timothy Cole’s wood cut after the portrait of Mark by Abbot Thayer. CESW.”
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 16 April 1960.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.