CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph note (unsigned) to his wife Livy in Elmira, N.Y., dated by Clemens "Guildford, Surrey, Aug. 28/96," about 45 words written in ink around the bottom margins of the first page, 8vo, (removed) of an advertisement leaflet of R.S. Smythe (Australian? lecture and concert promoter) for "Three Nights of Wit and Wisdom" by "Mark Twain." Clemens writes his note around a highly flattering (if not gushing) paragraph about him quoted from the Daily Telegraph and titled "The Coming Man." At the time Clemens was living in a rented house in Guildford, Surrey, England, working on Following the Equator (having completed his round-the-world tour of which the book would be an account). This note is dated ten days after Clemens was informed by cable that his beloved daughter Susy (back home in Elmira) had just died of meningitis at the age of twenty-four. Clemens' note: "Mr. Smythe asks me to send this to you [the advertisement page]. It reads as if it had been meant for that Biography [by Susy?] which can now never be finished. Please find it [the manuscript] & bring it with you. And the book of the children's sayings, too..."
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph note (unsigned) to his wife Livy in Elmira, N.Y., dated by Clemens "Guildford, Surrey, Aug. 28/96," about 45 words written in ink around the bottom margins of the first page, 8vo, (removed) of an advertisement leaflet of R.S. Smythe (Australian? lecture and concert promoter) for "Three Nights of Wit and Wisdom" by "Mark Twain." Clemens writes his note around a highly flattering (if not gushing) paragraph about him quoted from the Daily Telegraph and titled "The Coming Man." At the time Clemens was living in a rented house in Guildford, Surrey, England, working on Following the Equator (having completed his round-the-world tour of which the book would be an account). This note is dated ten days after Clemens was informed by cable that his beloved daughter Susy (back home in Elmira) had just died of meningitis at the age of twenty-four. Clemens' note: "Mr. Smythe asks me to send this to you [the advertisement page]. It reads as if it had been meant for that Biography [by Susy?] which can now never be finished. Please find it [the manuscript] & bring it with you. And the book of the children's sayings, too..."
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