Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "I make limitless"

Source format: "MS, draft"

Letter type: "draft"

Notes:

Last modified: 2005-08-02T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 2005-08-02 on Lorne May 19; formerly listed under "Lorne, marquis of"; was 19 May

Published on MTPO: 2023

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To John Douglas Sutherland Campbell (Lord Lorne)
20 May 1883 • 2nd of 2 (MS, draft telegram, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 04069)

I make limitless apologies.Ⓐemendation for my delay. Your telegr lordship’s telegram reached me at second hand through the telephone & was most confusingly reported. After long delay it has come to me correctly & lucidly in manuscript form, & the mystery I hasten to accept your lordship’s kind invitation & say I shall do myself the honor to report in Ottawa

Wainwright

Dawson

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, draft telegram, in pencil, CU-MARK. Clemens drafted this telegram on the back of a telegram from he received from Samuel E. Dawson, who was forwarding a message from Lord Lorne, 19 May 1883, CU-MARK, UCLC 50420.

Previous Publication:

MicroML, reel 5.

Provenance:

see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ . ● deletion implied
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