To Daniel Slote
27 June 1870 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00484)

Elmira, June 27.

Dear Dan—

Charley has been telegraphed to come home, & leaves London tomorrow in the [Abyssinnia ]—recollect [it. I ] do not know what to write you in the premises, further than that he will probably go to you for news when [ her a ] he arrives. His father is very ill—dangerously so. The chances are greatly against his recovery. You must look out for Charley and whatever the news may be by June 8 you will have to communicate it.1 I will write you again.

Yrs always

Sam Clemens.

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1 The Abyssinia departed Liverpool on 28 June and arrived in Boston on 8 July. Clemens and the Langdons evidently believed that its destination was New York, and therefore wanted Slote, who lived there, to meet Charles (“Passengers,” “Transcript Marine Journal,” Boston Evening Transcript, 9 July 70, 3).

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Source text(s):

MS, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).

Previous publication: L4, 161.

Provenance:donated to CtHMTH in 1962 by Ida Langdon.

Emendations and textual notes:

Abyssinnia • [sic]

it. I • it.— | I

her a • ‘a’ partly formed