To Unidentified
11 October 1873 • London, England
(MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00971)

Langham Hotel
London, 11th

Dear Sir:

I thank you very much for your kind invitation, but am engaged to lecture every night next week at Hanover [ Su ] Square Rooms, & leave for America via Liverpool on Sunday.1

Ys Truly

Samℓ. L. Clemens.

[letter docketed:] Mark Twain. [and] Clemens | (Mark Twain).

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1 The Clemenses were scheduled to leave London on Sunday, 19 October, for Liverpool, where Clemens was to lecture the following evening. They sailed for America on Tuesday, 21 October, on the Batavia, again commanded by their friend John Mouland (“Latest Ship News,” New York Tribune, 3 Nov 73, 5).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

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

Previous publication: L5, 451–452.

Provenance:donated to CtHMTH in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.

Emendations and textual notes:

Su Square • Su