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Source: University of Southern California, Los Angeles ([CLSU])

Cue: "For 5 months I have been"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: HES

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

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To George L. Hutchings
13 August 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CLSU, UCCL 11913)
office express printing company, buffalo, Aug. 13 187 0 . dear sir: in answer, i have to say that i am no longer in the lecture field, and have, at present, no expectation of entering it the present season. if anything should occur to change my mind, however, you will have early notice through my agents, the boston lyceum bureau, no. 20 bromfield street, boston. very truly yours,
                                        samuel l. clemens
                                         (mark twain.)
Friend Hutchings—

For 5 months I have been declining as per above formula. I haven’t the slightest idea of ever talking again on a platform. Congratulate me on my emancipation! With sincere esteem

I remain

Yrs
Clemens.

Personal. | G. L. Hutchings, Esq. | Bank, 42 Wall st. | New York. return address: return to j. langdon, elmira, n. y., if not delivered within 10 days. postmarked: elmira n.y. aug 13 docketed: Mark Twain Aug 13. ’70 and on flap: Mac | Headly | Albert | Rogers | Rindell | Hutchings | Randolph | Nesbitt1explanatory note

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, University Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (CLSU).

Previous Publication:

L5 , 686.

Provenance:

Donated, as part of a collection of 150 letters from the George Long Hutchings Lecture Club, to CLSU in 1986 by Jeanne Hutchings, widow of George Long Hutchings’s grandson, Frank Miller Hutchings.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 

None of these men, except Hutchings, has been identified. They may have been members of the Clayonian Society lecture committee, of which Hutchings was chairman (15 Oct 68 to Hutchings, n. 1click to open link).

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