Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 294

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
"I'M NOT A WANDERER, & MUST STICK TO MY DESK & FULFILL MY CONTRACTS" TWAIN, MARK. Autograph Letter Signed, "SL Clemens," to Captain Richard Edgecumbe, stating that he cannot wander because he is obligated to work at his desk, and describing the family vacation house. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, morning stationery, written on the first and terminal pages of a folded sheet; horizontal fold. With the original envelope, addressed in his hand. [Weggis, Switzerland: from postmark], 29 July 1897
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"You'll be wandering down this way, & we will paddle around the lake on a steamer & have a smoke & a holiday; but I'm not a wanderer, & must stick to my desk & fulfill my contracts, otherwise I would go & hunt up Montana & have a try at your tobacco.
"We've got a little coop of a house on the hillside, & when the family are all in it (we are 7) it is packed as snugly as a cigar-box; but it's our shanty, & we like it. The meals are served in it from the inn down at the foot of the garden, & we consider ourselves rather luckily situated for sinners.
"I loafed yesterday--being lazy--but I will get to work now."
Twain and his family spent the 1897 summer in Switzerland, during which he began his Mysterious Stranger (unfinished) and More Tramps Abroad, published in 1898.