1–18 July 1880 • Elmira, N.Y. (Sales catalog: Goodspeed’s, April 1924,
no. 156, item 248, UCCL 04370)
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I should certainly go, notwithstanding the distance, but for the fact that just about the middle of August (if we have luck) I shall be called upon to take upon myself the office of superintending a wet nurse, or of preparing condensed milk for a nursing-bottle. My reputation is so well established, in both of these arts & sciences, that it would not be possible to fill my place satisfactorily; therefore I shall have to stay here & lose my share of those good times—(Howells is always in them; nothing ever happens to himⒶemendation these days)
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The text of the letter, rendered in italics in the catalog, is silently rendered in roman type here.
Goodspeed’s catalog, April 1924, no. 156, item 248, notes that the letter is “(a) A. l. s. 2 pp., Elmira, no year, to Charles Eliot Norton, declining an invitation.”
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