Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn ([CtHMTH])

Cue: "My mind is gradually breaking down under the"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

Notes:

Last modified: 2007-10-04T00:00:00

Revision History: VF 2007-10-04 was NN10 (copy provided by Christie's East)

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To Unidentified
20 November 1878 • Munich, Germany (MS, correspondence card: CtHMTH, UCCL 12218)

No. 1a, Karlstrasse,
   (2e Stock. Ⓐemendation

Munich, Nov. 20/78.
slc                        farmington avenue, hartford.
My Dear Sir:

My mind is gradually breaking down under the strain of trying to get those clocks into the United States without loss of life. I took that oath here before our consul & shipped it home—& your letter along with it to help explain it. But of course I forgot to keep a memorandum of the Geneva clock-merchant’s name; so I am obliged to send the 13 francs to you instead of to him. (which I shall do by postal order this evening.) Now if you will just pigeon-hole it till he calls for it, all will be.Ⓐemendation well. If he never calls, let him suffer, & thereby grow in grace.

It is not impossible that I shall be in Geneva again, by & by, in which case I shall do myself the pleasure to look you up & thank you for letting me trouble you so much.

Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens.

letter docketed: Mark Twain | Mr Clemens

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, CtHMTH.

Previous Publication:

Christie’s East catalog, 22 May 2000, no. 8343, lot 231, paraphrase; Sotheby’s catalog, 19 June 2003, lot 34; MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

The MS was part of the Sidney L. Krauss Collection before May 2000, when it was offered for sale by Christie’s East. It was bought by Nick Karanovich and sold after his death to CtHMTH through Sotheby’s in June 2003.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ ‸No. . . . Stock.‸ • a vertical brace spans the right margin of these two lines
Ⓐ  be. •  deletion implied
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