26 March 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: NPV, UCCL 00449)
The coffin of “Enterprise” files has come—$ expressage $9.50.1explanatory note Nothing unright about that, but I had had a sort of a general idea that it would come w Ⓐemendation as slow freight along with Annie’s pianaⒶemendation. However, it would not a have been as safe.
Livy got Annie’s letter yesterday, & both of us were pleased with it.—I, chiefly with the just remarks made about Livy’s comeliness & other attractions. I thought it showed a profound judgment & a mature appreciation, & thus was remarkable coming from one so young. {I will endeavor not to let Livy meddle with that sentence.}
I am going to edit a ten-page department in the “Galaxy” Magazine. The berth is exceedingly easy & the salary liberal. I am to own rent the matter to them, not sell it—& so I can use it in book form afterward without divi sharing the proceeds with them.
But I am in a hurry—so I will say good-bye & love to all––
For an account of these “files” of western clippings, see RI 1993 , 801–4.
References
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
- 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 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1995
- Webster, Samuel Charles. Mark Twain, Business Man. Edited by Samuel Charles Webster. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1946
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Roughing It. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, Edgar Marquess Branch, Lin Salamo, and Robert Pack Browning. The Works of Mark Twain. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. This edition supersedes the one published in 1972. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1993
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Vassar College Library (NPV).
L4 , 97–98; MTBus , 112.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.