15 August 1869 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: DLC, UCCL 00334)
To-day my new book will be sent to the Tribune—& this is to ask you if you won’t get your reviewer to praise the bad passages & feeble places in it for me. They Ⓐemendation are the only ones I am worrying about, you know—the meritorious parts can get along themselves, of course.
I date this at Hartford, so that there shall not appear to be any collusion between my publisher & me, or that he has suggested this note,—but in reality I am rea in reality in the “Express” office at Buffalo, & have not been near Hartford lately.1explanatory note
This letter may have accompanied a review copy. The New York Tribune’s long and complimentary notice appeared on 27 August 1869. For Clemens’s reaction to it, see his letter of 7 September to Reid.
References
- United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- 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’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, Papers of the Reid Family, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (DLC).
L3 , 303.
donated to DLC between 1953 and 1973 by Mrs. Helen Rogers Reid and her sons, Whitelaw Reid and Ogden R. Reid.
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