To Chicago Union Veteran Club
1–15 December? 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(Chicago Tribune, 6 January 1878, UCCL 13079)
(SUPERSEDED)

I am tied to the treadmill, hand [&] foot, hard at work, on what seems an interminable book, so I must not think of lecturing,—though I assure you that I would be considerable gladder to have talked for the Veterans than for any other institution in the country, if I were still on the lecturing war path.

Yours truly,

S. L. [Clemens].

Textual Commentary

Editorial Signs

Description of Texts and Provenance

Copy-text:

“Mark Twain Won’t Lecture,” Chicago Tribune, 6 January 1878, 8.

Previous publication:“Mark Twain Won’t Come,” Chicago Inter-Ocean, 7 January 1878, 3.

Emendations and textual notes:

& • and

Clemens • Clemens