To
Charles Henry Webb
10 January 1868 • Washington, D.C. (Transcripts: AAA 1927, lot 109; Parke-Bernet Galleries 1940,
lot 188, UCCL 00178)
10 January 1868 • Washington, D.C. (Transcripts: AAA 1927, lot 109; Parke-Bernet Galleries 1940,
lot 188, UCCL 00178)
Washington, Jan. 9Ⓐemendation
. . . .
Please send me 3 Ⓐemendationcopies of the Jumping ⒶemendationFrog—I never got but 6 of the lot you gave me Ⓐemendationan order forⒶemendation. I lost the order. Send them (the 3) through the mail. ⒶemendationIt is 2 A.M.Ⓐemendation—I will to bed.1explanatory note
Yr. Friend
Saml. Clemens.Ⓐemendation
Explanatory Notes
1
That is, presumably, early in the morning of 10 January.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Adopted readings without sigla are editorial emendations of the source readings.
Ⓐ
Please . . . 3 (P2) ●
Asks Webb to send him three (P1)
Ⓐ
the Jumping (P2) ●
dee Jumping (P1)
Ⓐ
me (P1) ●
not in
(P2)
Ⓐ
for (P2) ●
followed in P1 by three ellipsis points, which stand
for the dropped words described in the next entry
Ⓐ
I . . . mail. (P2) ●
not in
(P1)
Ⓐ
A.M. (P1) ●
am
(P2)
Ⓐ
Yr. . . . Clemens. (P2) ●
not in
(P1)
No source text. The text is based on two auction-catalog transcriptions that derive independently from the lost MS:
Although P2 is more complete than P1, both lack (at least) a salutation. Like many catalogs, P1 and P2 use italic type for text quoted from manuscript, a convention not followed here.
L2 , 153; none known except P1 and P2.
The MS was once owned by Henry Goldsmith, New York (before 1927), and then by John Gribbel, Philadelphia (before 1940). Its present location is unknown.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.