To Charles Erskine Scott Wood
5–9 August 1882 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, holograph facsimile correspondence card: ViU, UCCL 02243)
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[canceled with crisscrossing lines:]
Hartford, Wednesday.
slcDear Sir:
In reply I am obliged to say that I have quitted the platform permanently. With thanks for the compliment of your invitation I am
Truly Yours
Mark Twain
[on the verso:]
I’d like it first-rate, Wood, & so would Twichell. The one you sent here for signature is the only one I’ve seen.
Raining here, now; & cold as Greenland!
Ys Sincerely
S L Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):MS, holograph facsimile correspondence card, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, ViU. Wood later annotated the card: “I think this refers to a proof of Timothy Cole’s wood cut after the portrait of Mark by Abbot Thayer. CESW.”
Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Provenance:
Deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 16 April 1960.
Emendations and textual notes:
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