If the woman is engaged or married will probably be a significant subject to me. yet you'll guarantee her of my timeless admiration in the meantime. think me so much gratefully yours Godfrey Egremont S. L. Clemens Esqe Hartford, U. S. A. Clemens’s remark: Brer, simply say i've got long gone to Europe. | SLC Clemens mocked German’s possible random project of noun genders in “The lousy German Language,” an appendix in A Tramp out of the country (1880)—a ebook this letter calls Der Landstreicher verreist (vagrant traveler). The letter itself was once most likely a hoax. Its writer has no longer been certainly pointed out yet can have been the Godfrey Egremont who was once a drama and song critic and secretary of a development society in 1891–1900 determine 18. the yank preserving Hello-Central in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court docket, 525. selection of the writer. Adelaide, Australia, through the early Eighteen Eighties. After being convicted of embezzlement, that guy fled to Germany yet used to be captured, again to Australia, and sentenced to felony for 6 years in 1886. His later background is hazy, yet his theater and German connections will be suitable to this letter (“The cost of Embezzlement opposed to Godfrey Egremont,” South Australian Advertiser, 28 Apr. 1886; “South Australia,” Launceston, Tasmania, Examiner, four June 1886). that very same Egremont could have been the writer of Verse (New York, 1903), which includes ten poems on Australia. A Gregory Egremont used to be additionally the writer of Poems and Songs (London, 1873). An English govt loss of life checklist for early 1923 lists a seventy-seven-year-old Godfrey Egremont one of the those who died that yr. 159 160 1891–1900 Daniel Carter Beard’s representation of the american maintaining his child, Hello-Central, whereas his spouse, Sandy, appears on (figure 18) seemed in bankruptcy forty-one of Connecticut Yankee. Beard modeled Sandy at the recognized American actress Annie Russell (1864– 1936). The Egremont in Australia had a spouse and 6 teenagers; given his theater historical past, he can have well-known Russell’s face within the photograph. 10 eight June 30, 1891 Mr. Sam’l L. Clemens, Hartford, Conn. My expensive Sir. I came upon a superb tale approximately your self the opposite day, copied into one in all our neighborhood papers, and it jogged my memory of a humorous incident that got here less than our own detect in Rome, Italy, in Jan’y ’75. —I have frequently advised it and as usually concept I may still take pleasure in telling it to you—Why now not achieve this now—and during this approach? My husband and that i, with a pal, have been “doing” the ruins, which we loved immensely,—except that our pal, now an M. C. from Chicago, was once sometimes bored via an excessive amount of speak and too many old proof from our very good consultant Daniel Schiefi—so a lot in order that he occasionally threatened Daniel with condign punishment if he dared to offer him, Col. T—— from now on of his proof and figures till he used to be requested to take action. at some point, being in a pleasant temper, the Colonel gave Daniel a piece of your pleasant “Innocents in another country” to read—the half containing the account of the rigors your celebration sustained from guides—but Daniel quickly with politeness again it, announcing he used to be afraid to learn a lot of it simply because his brain acquired a lot combined whereas interpreting it that he may well hardly ever inform truth from fiction, and he needs to continue proof prior to him if he anticipated to be hired as a consultant.