[Postcard, 1875?] Nov. 24 [to] J. B. Pond / Mark.

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[Postcard, 1875?] Nov. 24 [to] J. B. Pond / Mark.

Mark Twain writes to J. B. Pond, a lecture circuit promoter at the Literary Bureau in Boston, Mass.: "My dear Boy, I wish I could, but I'm busy head over heels, & it's just a solid impossibility. Yours, Mark." The postcard is a U. S. one-cent postcard originally issued in 1875 and postmarked Hartford, Conn., Nov. 24 and Boston, Mass., Nov. 24. By 1879 Pond had left the Literary Bureau and relocated to New York City.

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1838-1903

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American Lecture Bureau manager. From the description of Papers of James Burton Pond [manuscript], 1899-1903. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844218 Amer. lecture manager. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (2) and autograph letter signed : to Harper & Bros., 1887 Oct. 11-Nov. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617885 James B. Pond was born into a large, rather poor family living in Illinois and later Wisconsin. Ra...