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Add to My CitationsTo George L. Hutchings
13 August 1870 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS: CLSU, UCCL 11913)
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office express printing company,

buffalo, Aug. 13 187 0.

dear sir:

in answer, i have to say that i am no longer in the lecture field, and have, at present, no expectation of entering it the present season. if anything should occur to change my mind, however, you will have early notice through my agents, the boston lyceum bureau, no. 20 bromfield street, boston.

very truly yours,
em spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem space samuel l. clemens
em spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem space(mark twain.)

Friend Hutchings—

For 5 months I have been declining as per above formula. I haven’t the slightest idea of ever talking again on a platform. Congratulate me on my emancipation! With sincere esteem

I remain

Yrs

Clemens.

altalt

Personal.
G. L. Hutchings, Esq.
Bank, 42 Wall st.
New York. [return address:] return to j. langdon, elmira, n. y., if not delivered within 10 days. [postmarked:] elmira n.y. aug 13 [docketed:] Mark Twain Aug 13. ’70 [and on flap:] Mac | Headly | Albert | Rogers | Rindell | Hutchings | Randolph | Nesbitt1

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1 None of these men, except Hutchings, has been identified. They may have been members of the Clayonian Society lecture committee, of which Hutchings was chairman (15 Oct 68 to Hutchings, n. 1).



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glyphglyphProvenance:glyphDonated, as part of a collection of 150 letters from the George Long Hutchings Lecture Club, to CLSU in 1986 by Jeanne Hutchings, widow of George Long Hutchings’s grandson, Frank Miller Hutchings.