15 April 1869 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 00283)
Yes, on page 233 it Ⓐemendation ought to be “forgot it in France”—as you suggest.
Sometimes it should be “St Peter” & sometimes “St. Peter’s.” I have made the correction.1explanatory note
Well, I am sure I hope we shall made make Ⓐemendation a big campaign with the book. It Ⓐemendation is a readable book, I know—because I wrote it myself. And it is going to be a mighty handsome book—as your letter-press & pictures show, plainly enough.
I begin to be afraid that I have given you MSS enough for about a million pages.
letter docketed: ✓
Clemens was returning the proofs of chapters 23–27 (pages 228–97), which he had probably received on Monday, 12 April. Bliss had called his attention to the omitted “it” in chapter 23 (page 233), and to a possible inconsistency in chapter 26 (pages 271–75), where he initially referred to the “Church of St. Peter” but afterward called it simply “St. Peter’s.” The particular correction is unidentifiable since neither the printer’s copy nor the proofs is known to survive.
References
- Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn.
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks. Edited by Dixon Wecter. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library. 1949
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 3: 1869. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Dahlia Armon. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1992
MS, Willard S. Morse Collection, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR).
MTMF , 93, brief quotation; L3 , 194–195.
donated to CtY in 1942 by Walter F. Frear.
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