To
James Redpath
17 January 1873 • Hartford, Conn.
(Anderson Galleries 1926, lot 413, and AAA/Anderson 1929, lot 22, UCCL 09230)
. . . .
$1000 wouldn’t pay me to memorize that lecture, & I won’t [re-deliver] the Sandwich Islands lecture there1—[besides, I may talk the latter in N. Y. & Brooklyn for the Mercantile Library] ... I haven’t got a bit of time to fool away lecturing.
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
Dear Sir: Pugh, Philadelphia offers 400 $ for a
lecture in his course, and gives you these dates to select
from:— Feb 17th
Mch 6th
Please telegraph us early in morning, your
answer, as Pugh is pressed for time. Redpath in NY. Yours truly Redpath & Fall Clemens may have telegraphed a briefer answer before following up with
the present letter. The lecture that he was unwilling “to
memorize” has not been identified. He had delivered his
Sandwich Islands lecture in Philadelphia, in T. B. Pugh’s
“Star Course,” on 7 December 1869 (L3, 485).
20th
10th
15th
Source text(s):| P1 | Anderson Galleries 1926, lot 413 |
| P2 | AAA/Anderson 1929, lot 22 |
Previous publication:
L5, 274.
Provenance:The MS was offered for sale in 1926 as part of the autograph collection of
Emanuel Hertz, and in 1929 as part of the collection of John M. Geddes.
Emendations, adopted readings, and textual notes:
No copy-text. The text is based on two incomplete transcriptions, each of which derives independently from the MS:
P1 describes the letter as an “A. L. s., 1 p., 8vo. Hartford, Jan. 17, 1873. To Mr. Redpath.” P2 describes the letter identically, except for the variants noted below, but its text is less complete.
Home, (C) • Home [Hartford],; Hartford, [both reported, not quoted] (P2,P1)
Jan. 17, 1873. (P1) • Jan. 17, 1773. [both reported, not quoted] (P2)
re-deliver (P2) • re-|deliver (P1)
—besides ... Library (P1) • [not in] (P2)
