To
Gertrude Kellogg
22? September 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(Paraphrase: Gertrude Kellogg to SLC, 24 September 1876,
CU-MARK, UCCL 13038)
(SUPERSEDED)
Your very kind letter came duly to hand. I thank you for it and for your thoughtfulness in speaking a good word for me to the Bureau people in Boston as I have heard you did.
I think you are right in your ideas of moderate prices, to start with, and I so stated the matter to Messrs Hathaway & Pond.1
Explanatory Notes
Kellogg had won critical praise in 1874 as Laura Hawkins in the original
New York production of Clemens’s Gilded Age play, Colonel Sellers. In December 1876 at Booth’s Theatre, in New York, she was in the company that supported Lawrence Barrett in King Lear and Richard III. In 1878 and 1879,
as a reader for the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, owned since late 1875 by George H. Hathaway and
James B. Pond, she gave well-received recitations from Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and others. She subsequently returned to the stage
(L6, 355 n. 2, 541 n. 6, 650; Odell 1927–49, 10:177;
“Amusements,” New York Tribune, 1–18 Dec 76, various pages; Lyceum 1878–79, 4, 35–36;
“Death List of a Day,” New York Times, 21 Apr 1903, 9).
Copy-text:Provenance:See Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
