CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph letter signed ("S.L.C.") to his good friend and financial adviser Henry Huttleston Rogers, on board Rogers's steam yacht Kanawha "Off [left] right-hand corner of Cape Cod," 26 June 1902. 2 pages, 8vo, on two separate leaves, tiny pinholes at upper left corners . Rogers had put his yacht at the disposal of the Clemens family for a cruise from their Riverdale (on the Hudson) home to York Harbor, Maine (which they reached on 27 June). Twain describes the voyage: "...The sail from Riverdale till night fell was charming & exalting & beautiful beyond all experience. It went ahead of anything that ever was. If you had only been along the whole thing would have been just perfect. And the yacht was never so beautiful before; her new clothes suit her to a dot. We had a most pleasant time at Fairhaven; I, billiarding & napping, & the others driving & seeing the Library, Town Hall, etc...It is 3.30 now, & a brilliant day, but we have missed the most of it through having to stay below & watch Jean [his daughter], who was perfectly well yesterday but is under threats to-day...There is no way to thank you for this lovely trip...I think this is Cape Cod, but I haven't inquired. Sand-banks all along & no business going on..." Not in Mark Twain's Correspondence with...Rogers , ed. L. Leary (Berkeley, 1969) and presumably unpublished.
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph letter signed ("S.L.C.") to his good friend and financial adviser Henry Huttleston Rogers, on board Rogers's steam yacht Kanawha "Off [left] right-hand corner of Cape Cod," 26 June 1902. 2 pages, 8vo, on two separate leaves, tiny pinholes at upper left corners . Rogers had put his yacht at the disposal of the Clemens family for a cruise from their Riverdale (on the Hudson) home to York Harbor, Maine (which they reached on 27 June). Twain describes the voyage: "...The sail from Riverdale till night fell was charming & exalting & beautiful beyond all experience. It went ahead of anything that ever was. If you had only been along the whole thing would have been just perfect. And the yacht was never so beautiful before; her new clothes suit her to a dot. We had a most pleasant time at Fairhaven; I, billiarding & napping, & the others driving & seeing the Library, Town Hall, etc...It is 3.30 now, & a brilliant day, but we have missed the most of it through having to stay below & watch Jean [his daughter], who was perfectly well yesterday but is under threats to-day...There is no way to thank you for this lovely trip...I think this is Cape Cod, but I haven't inquired. Sand-banks all along & no business going on..." Not in Mark Twain's Correspondence with...Rogers , ed. L. Leary (Berkeley, 1969) and presumably unpublished.
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