‸149 Asylum st.‸
Hartford, Aug. 19.
Friend Sutro—
Got your letter [to-day]. When do you sail? Can’t you run up here for one day?1 I’m awful busy on my new book on Nevada & California. And by the way you might tell me something about the tunnel that would make an interesting page, perhaps.2 It was about another matter that I wanted to see you principally & very particularly,3 but one might as well kill various birds with one stone.
Riley is in England.—London.4
Yrs
Samℓ. L. Clemens
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary



Previous publication:
L4, 447–448; Chester L. Davis 1949, 8.
Provenance:
The letter was sold by the Holmes Book Company, Oakland, probably in 1949;
again in 1969 (and perhaps in 1972) by the Scriptorium, Los Angeles; and by
1976 it had been bought by Theodore H. Koundakjian, who sold it to JIm in
1987.
Emendations and textual notes:
to-day • to-|day
England. • [deletion implied]