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To James Redpath
12 May 1873 • Elmira, N.Y.
(Mark Twain Quarterly, 5:19, UCCL 00914)

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Elmira, May 12.1

Dear Redpath:

We sail from New York next Saturday in the [Batavia]—[shan’t ]be in Boston before sailing.

Shall return next October. May possibly lecture in 3 or 4 large eastern cities—but nowhere else.2

Too late to write me here. London address will be care of

Geo. Routledge [& ]Sons

The Broadway

Ludgate Hill London E. C.

Yrs Ever,

Mark.

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1 Clemens left Hartford on 8 May, after signing the contract for The Gilded Age, and stopped briefly in New York, where he met with Edward T. Potter (his architect) and John B. Garvie (his builder) to discuss plans for the new house. He probably arrived in Elmira late on 9 May (Elisabeth G. Warner to George H. Warner, 8 May 73, CU-MARK).

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2 Clemens did not lecture again in the United States until March 1874; see 17 Dec 73 to Redpath, n. 2.

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Source text(s):

“Letters to James Redpath,” Mark Twain Quarterly 5 (Winter–Spring 1942): 19.

glyph Previous publication: L5, 364.

glyph Emendations and textual notes:

Batavia • Batavia

shan’t • Shan’t

& • and