To Charles F. Wingate
2 April 1873 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00896)

Hartford, Apl. 2.

Dear Sir:1

I shall be here at home some three weeks yet, & possibly longer. I cannot ‸therefore‸ tell exactly when I shall be [at] in New York. But I stop at the St Nicholas Hotel always, ◇ & if you should glance at the T hotel arrivals in the Tribune you would see when I come, & then I would be glad if you dropped in. The reason I cannot be more positive as to the day I shall leave here is, that I am finishing a book2 & I find it impossible to tell exactly when I am going to get it done.

Very Truly Yrs

Samℓ. L. Clemens.

Chas. F. Wingate Esq

Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary

Editorial Signs

Click to add citation to My Citations.

1 Charles Frederick Wingate (Carlfried; 1848–1909), a New York correspondent for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican and for the Boston Globe, had prepared a pamphlet commemorating the celebration of Horace Greeley’s sixty-first birthday in February 1872, which Clemens had attended (3 Feb 72 to Johnson, n. 1). In May of that year he became the editor of the Paper Trade Journal. In 1875 he edited Views and Interviews on Journalism, which included interviews with twenty-seven prominent journalists, among them Whitelaw Reid, Samuel Bowles, Murat Halstead, Henry Watterson, George W. Smalley, and David G. Croly (L4, 102–3; Wilson and Fiske, 6:564; “Personals,” Boston Globe, 5 June 72, 5; Wingate 1875).

Click to add citation to My Citations.

2 The Gilded Age.

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Cyril Clemens Collection, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).

Previous publication:L5, 328–29; Richards, item 102, excerpts.

Provenance:Donated to CtHMTH in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.

Emendations and textual notes:

at • [‘t’ partly formed]