I don’t know the address.
To
Frank Fuller
with a note to Thomas L. James, New York Postmaster
18 November 1879 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: MoSW, UCCL 01721)
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Monday. ‸Tuesday.‸
Dear Gov—
Read the enclosed & return it to me so I can answer it. I want to know whether to decline or accept—& so, to act intelligently, I must know whether it is going to be an enormous occasion or only a moderate one. Who is Mr. Dawson, & what is he? If this is an occasion big enough to rake in Whales like Grant & Victoria’s daughter, how is it that they construct an Invitation Committee out of such wordy, flippant & obscure timber as this Mr. Dawson? I never heard of him before. Isn’t it barely possible that he is expecting a park of heavy artillery which won’t arrive, & that he hopes to rope in my “Swamp Angel” on these false pretenses?
Look into this, Frank, will you? I can’t afford to attend any but the very biggest kind of blow-outs—neither can I afford to miss the biggest kind of blow-outs.
With this family’s warmest regards to you both—
Ys Ever
Mark.
Work this secretly——but you know how.
‸Mr. James, have I got to put the address of
the Windsor on, according to the new law, or will you let this go,
just this once, & greatly oblige 
Yrs
Truly M. T.
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‸ Gov. Frank Fuller | Windsor Hotel | New York | N. Y. [in left margin:] If not delivered, please return to “Mark Twain,” Hartford, Ct.
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[postmarked:] hartford conn. nov 18 4pm [and] new-york rec’d. nov 19 1 pm 79 [and] h 11 19 8
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