To George Bentley
15 and 30 October 1873 • London, England,
and SS Batavia en route from Liverpool, England, to New York, N.Y.
(MS: ViU, UCCL 00975)

Oct. [ 14 15.]

My Dear Mr. Bentley:

Two engagements (both business) [interfered,] & I couldn’t come. Am now (1 PM) starting out on another.

I’ll think of the Mag. article, but probably cannot write it, I shall be so full of work as soon as I get home.1 We sail next Tuesday.

Ys Truly

S. L. Clemens.

over.

At Sea, Oct. 30. 2

P. S. My idea was to put [ the that] French Jumping Frog into a book, in case you were done with it. Didn’t want to take it away until you were done with it, tho[u]gh.

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1 So far as is known, Clemens never wrote the article Bentley had evidently requested specifically for Temple Bar.

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2 Clemens, Olivia, Susy, and Nellie (the nursemaid), accompanied by Clara Spaulding and her mother, embarked for New York on the Batavia on Tuesday, 21 October.

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).

Previous publication: L5, 455.

Provenance:deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 17 December 1963.

Emendations and textual notes:

14 15 • 145

interfered • interferded

the that • theat