To William Wright (Dan De Quille)
17 September 1875 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CLjC, UCCL 11612)

Hartford Sept 17.

Dear Dan:

I wish you would write Messrs. Fair, Mackey & O’Brien,1 & ask them if they won’t save all the begging letters that come to them & send them to me from time to time. You know how rich my collection of this sort of literature is becoming, from reading some of those that Barnum sends me every month.

Yrs Ever

Mark.

P. S. I destroy the names & addresses of such letters.

Wm. Wright, Esq
Union Hall Hotel
City [return address:] if not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to| “Mark Twain” Esq| City. [postmarked:] hartford conn. sep 17 6pm

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1 William Shoney O’Brien (1826–78) was born in Ireland and went to California in 1849, where he mined for a time, opened a saloon in San Francisco, and later became a stockbroker. Like Fair and Mackay, he made a fortune from the Comstock lode (Hart 1987, 358–59; 29 Mar and 4 Apr 75 to Wright, nn. 5, 9).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California (CLjC).

Previous publication: L6, 535–536; Berkove 1988, 8.

Provenance:see the commentary for 29 Mar and 4 Apr 75 to Wright.