To Whitelaw Reid
22 February 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MS: DLC, UCCL 00581)

Buffalo, 22d.

Friend Reid:

I thank your heartily for saving me that gratuitous [ offense ] ‸snub‸ in the Tribune, & shall be glad to choke a slur for you if I ever get a chance. I guess this emanated from some bummer who owes me borrowed money & can’t forgive the offence.1

My wife is still dangerously ill with typhoid fever, & we watch with her night & day hardly daring to prophecy what the result will be.

Warm regards to Hay & Hazard.2

Yrs Ever

Mark.

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1 Reid’s letter to Clemens is lost and nothing is known of the “slur” he intercepted.

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2 John Hay and John Rose Greene Hassard.

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Whitelaw Reid Papers, Library of Congress (DLC).

Previous publication: L4, 336.

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).

Emendations and textual notes:

offense • [false ascenders/descenders]