12 November 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, typewritten, from dictation, and MS: UkReU, UCCL 00863)
your recent letter and notes for 904 pounds, 7 shillings and 11 pence are received and i return my thanks for the same. continue in similar well-doing, and you will continue to prosper both here and hereafter.
i am very sorry that wasn’t the king; but never mind, i am used to these disappointments.
i expect to be ready to talk business and make contracts with you on the new book pretty soon now—possibly a month hence.
i do not know as much about publishing as you do, but as you think three (3) pence a fair royalty on the proposed two (2) shilling edition of the “tramp abroad” i will take your word for it and we will let it stand accepted at that.
I enclose a note from Osgood.
References
- University of Reading Library, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire, England
- 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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, typewritten, from dictation, and MS: UkReU.
MicroPUL, reel 2.