To John Douglas Sutherland Campbell (Lord
Lorne)
20 May 1883 • 1st of 2
(MS, draft telegram, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 02389)
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I make a world of apologies. Your lordship’s invitation reached me at second hand through the telephone and was apparently a second one from Mr. Dawson., & so I sent my reply to him. Upon sending a messenger to the telegraph office last night the mistake was ‸is now‸ discovered.
Source text(s):MS, draft telegram, in pencil, CU-MARK. Clemens drafted this telegram
on the back of a telegram he received from Samuel E. Dawson, 19 May 1883, CU-MARK,
UCLC 41555.
Previous publication:
MicroML, reel 5.
Provenance:
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
