To George L. Fall
To James Redpath
27 June 1871 • (1st of 2) • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 00621)
To James Redpath
27 June 1871 • (1st of 2) • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 00621)
Elmira
Don’t be in any hurry about announcing the title of my lecture. Just say “To be announced.”2explanatory note
Because, I wrote a new lecture to-day, entitled simply “D. L. H.” During the month of July I’ll decide which I like best—& that one only will I use.
Ys
Mark.
letter docketed: boston lyceum bureau. redpath & fall. jun 29 1871 and L and Twain Mark | Elmira N.Y. | June 29 ’71
Explanatory Notes
1
Fall, Clemens remembered, was temporarily away from the Boston Lyceum Bureau (15 June 71 to Redpath, n. 1click to open letter).
MS, collection of Todd M. Axelrod.
L4 , 413–414; Will M. Clemens 1900, 28; Horner, 166–67, with omission; “Letters to James Redpath,” Mark Twain Quarterly 5 (Winter-Spring 1942): 20.
The present location of the MS, owned by Axelrod in 1983, is not known.