Hartfd, Apl. 22.
My Dear Reid:
Warner hasn’t finished up & isn’t going to get away for a week or more yet—& I guess I’m in the same boat. But the main bar with me is that my wife is pretty ill with diphtheria, & will not be on her feet for some little [time. So ] we have to lose the chance of a good time at the Lotos, for which I am very truly sorry.1
Yrs
S. L. Clemens.
[letter docketed:] 1873
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
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Previous publication:
L5, 353–354.
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Provenance:
The Whitelaw Reid Papers (part of the Papers of the Reid Family) were donated
to DLC between 1953 and 1957 by Helen
Rogers Reid (Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid).
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Emendations and textual notes:![]()
time. So • time.—|So