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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.
By the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, in conjunction with the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.