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Source: University of Virginia, Charlottesville ([ViU])

Cue: "Two engagements (both)"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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To George Bentley
15 and 30 October 1873 • London, England, and SS Batavia en route from Liverpool, England, to New York, N.Y. (MS: ViU, UCCL 00975)
Oct. 14 15.Ⓐemendation
My Dear Mr. Bentley:

Two engagements (both business) interfered,Ⓐemendation & I couldn’t come. Am now (1 PM) starting out on another.

I’ll think of the Mag. article, but probably cannot write it, I shall be so full of work as soon as I get home.1explanatory note We sail next Tuesday.

Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens.

over.

At Sea, Oct. 30. 2explanatory note

P. S. My idea was to put the thatⒶemendation French Jumping Frog into a book, in case you were done with it. Didn’t want to take it away until you were done with it, though.

Textual Commentary
15 and 30 October 1873 • To George Bentley • London, England, and SS Batavia en route from Liverpool, England, to New York, N.Y. • UCCL 00975
Source text(s):

MS, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).

Previous Publication:

L5 , 455.

Provenance:

deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 17 December 1963.

Explanatory Notes
1 

So far as is known, Clemens never wrote the article Bentley had evidently requested specifically for Temple Bar.

2 

Clemens, Olivia, Susy, and Nellie (the nursemaid), accompanied by Clara Spaulding and her mother, embarked for New York on the Batavia on Tuesday, 21 October.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  14 15 •  145
Ⓐ  interfered •  interferded
Ⓐ  the that •  theat
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