To James R. Osgood
23 August 1881 • Elmira, N.Y. (Sales catalog: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 19 and 20 November 1974, no. 3694, lot 89, UCCL 02013)
23 August 1881 • Elmira, N.Y. (Sales catalog: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 19 and 20 November 1974, no. 3694, lot 89, UCCL 02013)
Elmira, Aug. 23/81.Ⓐemendation
My Dear Osgood, Welcome home again! Shall see you before you get this letter. I am sending Chapter VI back unread. I don’t want to see any more until this godamded idiotic punctuating & capitalizing has been swept away & my own restored.
I didn’t see this chapter until I had already read Chap. VII—which latter mess of God-forever-God-damned lunacy has turned my hair white with rage.
Sweetly, sweetly
Yours
Mark.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ Elmira, Aug. 23/81. • Elmira 23 August [18]81 reported, not quoted; form of dateline adopted from other 1881 letters
Sotheby Parke Bernet catalog, 19 and 20 November 1974, no. 3694, lot 89.
P&P, 392, partial publication; MicroPUL, reel 2.
Offered for sale in 1974 from the collection of William E. Stockhausen.