To
Henry Watterson
To
R. Cowley-Squier
per Samuel C. Thompson
25 June 1873 • (2nd of 2) • London, England (Stenographic draft: CU-MARK, UCCL 00933)
per Samuel C. Thompson
25 June 1873 • (2nd of 2) • London, England (Stenographic draft: CU-MARK, UCCL 00933)
Jne 25th
Ⓐemendation
You are under a misaprehnsⒶemendation, I have Ⓐemendationnot called at the Examiner officeⒶemendation;1explanatory note but all of Ⓐemendationhave said in your note— should go very well. Very truly,
R. Cowley-Squier Ⓐemendation
Explanatory Notes
1
The London Examiner was a radical weekly launched in 1808 by John and Leigh Hunt. Its “political section gave great support to reform and was a frequent critic of the Prince of Wales” (Griffiths, 236).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
misaprehns ●
longhand
Ⓐ
Examiner office ●
longhand
Ⓐ
of ●
shorthand;
possibly ‘that’
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 5: 1872–1873. Edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1997
- Griffiths, Dennis, ed. The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1992
Dictation recorded by Samuel C. Thompson in his stenographic notebook, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 389; N&J1, 546.
Thompson’s notebook was purchased by CU-MARK in 1958 from Dawson’s Book Shop (Los Angeles).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.
see the commentary for 25 June 73 to Cowley-Squier (1st of 2).