1 See 23 Feb 74 to Redpath (2nd), n. 1. The earliest identified printing of this letter was in the Boston Globe on 29 September. The paper noted, “Mark Twain thus crusheth the hopes of lecture managers in a letter to Mr. Redpath” (“Notes and Extracts,” 4). Redpath’s offer may have been part of the “accumulated correspondence of 3 weeks” that Clemens reported in his 25 September letter to Seaver. If he wrote this refusal around that date it would have reached Redpath in time for publication in the Globe. Clemens had cards printed to use in declining lecture invitations for the 1874–75 season. None has been recovered, but the text survives on the back of an unrelated letter: see 19 or 20 Nov 74 to Parish.