To
Abraham V. Z. Curry and Others per Telegraph Operator
1 November 1866 • Virginia City, Nev.
(Transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 00108)
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[ california state telegraph company ]
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Virginia Nov. 1st 186 6
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[ to A Curry, J. Neely Johnson] Been on sick list off now—I accept for Saturday with many thanks—will be there tomorrow1 Mark Twain 17 Pd. 85 J |
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
Carson City, October 30, 1866. Mark Twain, Esq.: Dear Sir—The undersigned,
Citizens of Carson City, respectfully invite you to favor
them with a repetition of the Address or Lecture which you
have so acceptably presented to the People of San Francisco
and other places, on the subject of the Sandwich Islands,
and its People, or any other man, at
such time as may comport with your other engagements in this
respect. An early reply to this invitation will the more
satisfactorily enable us to make such announcement of the
fact of your acceptance (if agreeable to you) as will secure
the attendance on such an occasion, of the people of Carson
City, who remember you in times gone by as one of its
citizens, and who have none other than the most kindly
remembrances of you. (Carson City Daily
Appeal, 31 Oct 66, 3, clipping in Scrap-book 1:71,
CU-MARK) More than one hundred individuals signed this invitation, including
Curry, Johnson, Howland, and, at the head of the list, the
addressees of the next letter.
Source text(s):Previous publication:
L1, 363.
Provenance:In September 1948 Mrs. Charles Gunn and Louise Howland, daughters of Robert
M. Howland, loaned the original of this document and nine MS Clemens letters
to Dixon Wecter, then editor of the Mark Twain Papers, to enable him to
transcribe them. Sometime after Wecter returned the letters, the original of
this telegram was lost.
Emendations and textual notes:
california . . . company • CALIFORNIA STATE TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Virginia Nov. 1st 186 6 • Virginia [City] Nov. 1st 1866 [The telegraph operator would have been unlikely to write ‘[City]’. Presumably Wecter added it to avoid ambiguity in the typescript that would not have been a problem in the original.]
to A Curry, J. Neely Johnson • To A Curry, J. Neely Johnson
