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Elmira, N.Y.,
No, I'm not through my summer's work, by considerable —have written 50,000 words, & got to write 30,000 more — will take me all the rest of this month to finish, & lucky if the 25 days will do it. Been bothered with malaria, & delayed by it. Haven't had any lumbago, though — a disease which I don't much mind, because one can lie abed and write, with it.
Brer Osgood did not send me that notice; wherefore I would require a
copy at your hands if it were conveniently
get-hold-able But if it isn't, I will get it of
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Canada as soon as I reached home, & was
confoundedly disappointed when I found you had come
part-way & then escaped.
Come again. Come to Hartford. We shall be there
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by the middle of October; there to remain
till next June, & always ready for you, & a hearty welcome ready for
you, too. Do it, & I will forgive you. And you shall see
Twichell, who is just arriving home, now, from a 3-months'
prowl in Europe.