2 December 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NHi, UCCL 09103)
“When doctors disagree” calamity impends. But they seem to have agreed, this time, in a solid body. I am not surprised that they, & Mr. Longfellow, & President Garfield voted as a unit in attestation of the great & unique virtues of your Toykayer Aŭsbruch; & I am not surprised to find myself adding my vote to theirs, & following their lead; for I discover in this delightful wine all that they discovered in it, with this addition: that, taken in right measure, it heals the worn mind as well as the wasted body.
Ignorance is the enemy of man. I was afraid of the Aŭsbruch, until I looked in the dictionary, for I thought it meant Explosion, & dimly connected it with dynamite.
Lorenz Reich, Esq.
Lorenz Reich, Esq | 13 W. 11th st. | New York return address: return to s. l. clemens, hartford, conn., if not delivered within 10 days postmarked: hartford conn. dec 2 6pm docketed: Mark Twain Dec. 2 82 and ✓
MS, Lorenz Reich Papers, NHi.
MicroPUL, reel 2.