To Unidentified
18 October 1872 • London, England
(MS: Axelrod, UCCL 11320)

langham hotel, portland place, london. w.
Oct. 18.

Sir:

I think it will be 2 or 3 weeks before I shall really know whether I can lecture in Great Britain or not.1 So I am obliged to be thus [indefinite] in my reply. I certainly shall lecture about 8 or 10 times in this country if other & more necessary business shall permit.

Ys Truly

Samℓ. L. Clemens.

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1 See 15 Sept 72 to OLC. Clemens’s plans were uncertain while he awaited a reply from Olivia to his letter of 12 October.

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Source text(s):

MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 1985 by Todd M. Axelrod, who provided a photocopy to the Mark Twain Papers.

Previous publication: L5, 197.

Emendations and textual notes:

indefinite • indefinitee [deletion of second ‘e’ implied by retracing of first]