16 October 1873 • London, England (MS facsimile and transcript: www.sharperarebooks.com,
15 February 2008, item 95, UCCL 13094)
Please pass the bearer to a good stall.
Mark Twain.
Can’t you take this note as your authority & run in to the lecture (Hanover Square Rooms) tomorrow evening or Saturday afternoon? Or mail this to Geo. Dolby, (if you prefer,) 52 New Bond street, & he will send you ticket.
Or can’t you come to my room, 113, third floor, Langham, from 11 till noon?Ⓐemendation Am always in then. With great love &Ⓐemendation in great haste, Mark.
MS facsimile (‘Please . . . from’ [1.1–10]), and transcription (‘11 . . . Twain’ [1.10–12]), www.sharperarebooks.com, 15 February 2009, item 95.
Newly published on MTPO, 2010.