The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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P. S. Shall be here 2 weeks, will run up there when Nasby comes.  
ELMIRA, N. Y. Sept. 15, 1871.  
DEAR REDPATH,--I wish you would get me released from the lecture at  
Buffalo. I mortally hate that society there, and I don't doubt they  
hired me. I once gave them a packed house free of charge, and they never  
even had the common politeness to thank me. They left me to shift  
for myself, too, a la Bret Harte at Harvard. Get me rid of Buffalo!  
Otherwise I'll have no recourse left but to get sick the day I lecture  
there. I can get sick easy enough, by the simple process of saying the  
word--well never mind what word--I am not going to lecture there.  
Yours,  
MARK.  
BUFFALO, Sept. 26, 1871.  
DEAR REDPATH,--We have thought it all over and decided that we can't  
possibly talk after Feb. 2.  
We shall take up our residence in Hartford 6 days from now  
Yours  
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