To
Henry Lee
8 October 1873 (3rd of 3) • London, England (MS: ViU, UCCL 11812)
8 October 1873 (3rd of 3) • London, England (MS: ViU, UCCL 11812)
Wednesday.
P. S. I have ordered the 2 seats for 6 lectures, but you speak as if you meant to come 6 times! Bless your heart it is the same lecture repeated word for word 6 times. I thought I ought in simple kindness to tell you.1explanatory note
Ys
Mark.
Explanatory Notes
1
This postscript, clearly an addendum to the previous letter to Lee, was probably mailed in a separate envelope. Clemens wrote it on a new sheet of paper, in spite of the fact that he had inscribed the earlier letter on the first page of a four-page folder, leaving three blank pages available for a postscript.
MS, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).
L5 , 451; City Book Auction, lot 144.
The MS, laid in a first edition copy of Mark Twain’s Speeches (Harper and Brothers, 1910), was sold in 1954 to Seven Gables Bookshop (New York City) as part of the collection of Byron Price (City Book Auction); it was 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.