To Augustin Daly
15 August 1877 • New York, N.Y.
(MS, postal card, in pencil: DFo, UCCL 01471)

7 AM Wedn’sy.

I can only tender my regrets & compliments, & say I am this moment leaving for that bourne from whence no traveler returns when sober (Elmira, N.Y.)1 Excuse haste & a bad postal card.

Ys Truly

S. L. Clemens

us postal card.
write the address on this side—the message on the other

[address nearly illegible; only the following words are faintly visible:]

Fiske

5th Ave Theatre

City

[postmarked:] new-york e aug 15 9am

Explanatory Notes

Editorial Signs

Click to add citation to My Citations.

1Clemens alluded to Hamlet, act 3, scene 1. He evidently made a quick trip to New York, arriving at the St. James Hotel on 12 August. The address on this postal card is largely illegible, but the name “Fiske” indicates that he sent it in care of Stephen Fiske, Daly’s business manager, just as he did his telegram of 3 August (“Arrivals at the Hotels,” New York Times, 13 Aug 1877, 5).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, postal card, in pencil, Augustin Daly Letters and Papers, DFo.

Previous publication:

Daly 1917, 147.

Provenance:

The Daly papers were acquired by Henry Folger at various sales in the early twentieth century.