2 April 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00896)
I shall be here at home some three weeks yet, & possibly longer. I cannot therefore tell exactly when I shall be atⒶemendation in New York. But I stop at the St Nicholas Hotel always, ◇ & if you should glance at the T hotel arrivals in the Tribune you would see when I come, & then I would be glad if you dropped in. The reason I cannot be more positive as to the day I shall leave here is, that I am finishing a book2explanatory note & I find it impossible to tell exactly when I am going to get it done.
Chas. F. Wingate Esq
Charles Frederick Wingate (Carlfried; 1848–1909), a New York correspondent for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican and for the Boston Globe, had prepared a pamphlet commemorating the celebration of Horace Greeley’s sixty-first birthday in February 1872, which Clemens had attended (3 Feb 72 to Johnson, n. 1click to open letter). In May of that year he became the editor of the Paper Trade Journal. In 1875 he edited Views and Interviews on Journalism, which included interviews with twenty-seven prominent journalists, among them Whitelaw Reid, Samuel Bowles, Murat Halstead, Henry Watterson, George W. Smalley, and David G. Croly ( L4 , 102–3; Wilson and Fiske, 6:564; “Personals,” Boston Globe, 5 June 72, 5; Wingate 1875).
The Gilded Age.
MS, Cyril Clemens Collection, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).
L5 , 328–29; Richards, item 102, excerpts.
Donated to CtHMTH in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.