May 12, 2005 - Sale 2043

Sale 2043 - Lot 354

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
TWAIN, MARK. Autograph Letter Signed, "Samuel L. Clemens," to G. K. Jewett, declining his invitation to the opening of the European and North American Rail Road. 1 page, single 8vo sheet, personal stationery; folds. Hartford, 12 October [1871]
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"Your kind invitation is received & I return my hearty thanks for the compliment. But I am compelled to tender my regrets as well -- & they are hearty ones too, for it is hard to have to miss the opportunity of having personal experience of this great international event. But I am just leaving on a long lecturing tour & cannot get free."