To
Elisha Bliss, Jr.
1 March 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01200)
1 March 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01200)
Mch 1.
Friend Bliss:
I’ve put off the Miss. River trip till June, & shall write a new book meantime.1explanatory note
Raymond is stirring up a new sort of comment upon the novel. I received several private commendations from different States lately. Enclosed is the latest.2explanatory note
Ys
Mark.
letter docketed: ✓
Explanatory Notes
2
Raymond was on tour with the Gilded Age play. No enclosure survives with this letter. One of the “private commendations” survives separately, but there is no evidence that Clemens sent it to Bliss (see 1 Mar 75 to Gibbon, n. 1click to open link).
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 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L6 , 395–396.
see Mendoza Collection in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.