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Add to My Citations To Jane T. Bigelow
26 October 1875 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: Karanovich, UCCL 11672)
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Hartford, Oct. 26

My Dear Mrs. Bigelow:1

I ask a thousand pardons, but I spent a week in New York, & business drove the matter clear out of my otherwise empty head, where it was reposing solitary ‸companionless‸ in the midst of a vast & howling solitude.

Hoping you will generously forgive this unforgivable lapse, I sign myself,

Dear Madam,

Truly Yours,

Samℓ L. Clemens
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1 Jane Tunis Poultney Bigelow was the wife of John Bigelow (1817–1911), a prominent journalist, author, and diplomat. They had been married since 1850 and had eight children. She evidently wrote a note requesting an autograph, and perhaps followed it with a reminder; neither letter is known to survive. Clemens’s “week in New York” was from 12 to 16 October (see pp. 556–57).



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MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 1990 by Nick Karanovich, who provided a photocopy o the Mark Twain Papers.

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