To
Orion Clemens
9 March 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: PBL, UCCL 00584)
9 March 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: PBL, UCCL 00584)
Buf. 9th,
Dear Bro:
Tell Bliss “all right”—I will try to give him a chapter from the new book every month or nearly every month, for the Publisher. I have g
I have got several chapters (168 pages MS.) revised & ready for printers & artists, but for the sake of security Ⓐemendationshall get somebody to copy it & then send the original to him.1explanatory note Thank him for promising to take care of our furniture.
Yrs Ⓐemendation
Sam.
Explanatory Notes
1
One hundred sixty-eight pages would have taken Clemens through “the conjectured end of chapter 8, the pony-express incident” ( RI 1993 , 835, 838–40).
References
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
- 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
- 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, Robert B. Honeyman Collection, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. (PBL).
L4 , 346.
deposited at PBL in March 1957.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.