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Source: Lyceum Magazine (Boston), 1877-78 ([])

Cue: "Can't lecture till the"

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Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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To James B. Pond
19 June 1877 • Elmira, N.Y. ( Lyceum 1877–78, p. 2, UCCL 11871)
ElmiraⒶemendation, N. Y., June 19, 1877.
My Dear PondⒶemendation:

Can’t lecture till the revisesⒶemendation come. They haven’tⒶemendation arrived yet. Am summering here in calm contentment, far from the platform &Ⓐemendation its seductions. Long may you wave!1explanatory note

Yours sincerely,
Mark.Ⓐemendation
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Lyceum 1877–78, 2.

Explanatory Notes
1 Pond and George H. Hathaway had purchased the Redpath Lyceum Bureau from James Redpath in October 1875. In publishing this letter in their circular, the bureau noted that it was in response to its offer of a lecture fee of “three hundred dollars” a night ( Lyceum 1877–78, 2). This would have been a much higher fee than Clemens had earned in any of his earlier platform tours managed by the bureau (L6: 23 Feb 1874 to Redpath, 43 n. 1; 22 Sept 1875 to Redpath, 541 n. 6).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  Elmira ●  Elmira
Ⓐ  My Dear Pond ●  My Dear Pond
Ⓐ revises ● reverses Pond apparently misread the word ‘reverses’ when he transcribed Clemens’s unrecovered manuscript
Ⓐ  haven’t ●  have n’t
Ⓐ  & ●  and
Ⓐ  Mark. ●  “MARK.”
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