To Melville E. Stone
6–30 September 1883 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS facsimile: Collier’s Weekly, 2 October 1920, clipping in CU-MARK, UCCL 11918)
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Telegram.
Melville E. Stone,
Editor Daily News
Chicago, Ill
I am but one in the [55,000,000;] still, in the opinion of this one-fifty-five- millionth of the country’s population, it would be hard indeed to better President Arthur’s administration. But don’t decide till you hear from the rest.
Mark Twain
Hang the telegraph—it would be a year getting there—I send by mail.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):MS facsimile, Collier’s Weekly, 2 October 1920, clipping in CU-MARK.
Previous publication:
Melville E. Stone, Fifty Years a Journalist (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), 147.
Emendations and textual notes:
55,000,000; • [punctuation not visible in MS facsimile]
