To George M. Fenn
2 August 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 02366)
(SUPERSEDED)

Aug. 2.

[Mr. Dear] Mr. Fenn:

I would greatly like to do that, but I very seldom write a miscellaneous article [now-a-day-s], & the I am already under contract in London & America for all such things that I do write. So you see I can’t.

I wish you would remember me gratefully to friends in the Savage & Whitefriars—especially Henry Lee, if he will only be good & not so lazy & tell me what amount of money it was I once borrowed of him ‸in‸ Paris & told Dolby to repay him & Dolby writes that he forgot it—& I’ve forgotten the amount & Lee is too indolent to drop me a line—& I never will borrow money from such a lazy man again! I think Lee means to “lay low & keep dark” & get rich on the interest. A literary child has no show with one of those old cunning financial frauds.

Ys Truly

Samℓ. L. Clemens

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MS, Cyril Clemens Collection, CtHMTH.

Previous publication: MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:Donated in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.

Emendations and textual notes:

Mr. Dear • [sic]

now-a-day-s • [sic]