To
James Redpath
15 March 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (Transcript and paraphrase: National Book Auctions , lot 157, UCCL 10175)
15 March 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (Transcript and paraphrase: National Book Auctions , lot 157, UCCL 10175)
Buf., 15.Ⓐemendation
Dear Redpath—Ⓐemendation
paraphrase: About one-hundred-fifty words in Mark Twain’s handwriting offering to lecture in N. E. for $150.00 but for not less than $250.00 in Boston.Ⓐemendation paraphrase: Interesting letter to his agent, requesting a speaking tour. He asks that the matter be hushed in the meantime, and that he, reluctantly, would speak because of a contemplatedⒶemendation enterprise, but in Boston he wants more money! 1explanatory note
Mark.Ⓐemendation
Explanatory Notes
1 Clemens first intimated
the possibility of a limited fall lecture tour in his 30 January letter to
Redpath. It wasn’t until 15 March, three days before he left
Buffalo for good, and with Olivia definitely on the mend, that he could have
written at least tentatively confirming that intention. The
“contemplated enterprise” has not been
identified.
Transcript and paraphrase, National Book Auctions, lot 157. The auction catalog describes the letter as ‘Original Autograph Letter, Signed. 8 vo, about 150 words, both sides, ink. To “Dear Redpath”, SIGNED “MARK”, (Weak in the folds).’
L4 , 362.