To
Elisha Bliss,
Jr., or Francis E. Bliss
per Telegraph Operator
31 January 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS, copy received: CU-MARK, UCCL 00571)
per Telegraph Operator
31 January 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS, copy received: CU-MARK, UCCL 00571)
the western union telegraph company. Ⓐemendation
1257
Ⓐemendation
dated
Buffalo NY
187
1
received at
200 Jan.
31
to
E. Bliss or Frank 149 Asylym
St
Have an appointment at Grand Hotel eleven tomorrow can you
be there at noon
1explanatory note
Clemens
14 pd.
telegram docketed: ✓ and Mark Twain | Jan 24/712explanatory note
Explanatory Notes
1
The eleven o’clock appointment was with Isaac E. Sheldon or Francis P. Church, or both. In his subsequent meeting with Elisha Bliss, Clemens probably reported on his progress on Roughing It and answered Bliss’s objections to his commitments to Sheldon (27 Jan 71 to Bliss, n. 1click to open link; 27 Jan 71 to Sheldon, n. 1click to open link).
2
Bliss’s clerk misread the telegram’s date, which was poorly written.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
the . . . company. ●
words on telegram
blank identical to those reported in the commentary for 7 Nov 70 to
Langdon
Ⓐ
1257 ●
possibly ‘1259’
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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
MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L4 , 324.
see Mendoza Collection in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.