Sept 1./83.
My Dear Osgood—
Welcome home, & drink hearty! We strike Hartford about the 15th of this month, & shall soon afterward hope to see you.
All right, shan’t need that money till first of October—may need it then. But send me the statement—I want [to] see how bad the failure really is.
The thing I am grinding at, now, is my long series of history-games, the which I caveated in the patent office the other day. They’ll go, I judge.
I’ve finished “1,002” (Arabian Nights Tale,) & likewise “The Adventures of Huck Finn;” had written 50,000 words on it before; & this summer it took 70,000 to complete it.
We expect to spend Sept. 13, 14, & 15 at the Brunswick, New York—don’t forget it if you are down.
Ys Truly
S L. Clemens
[letter docketed:] james r. osgood & co. boston. sep 3 1883
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