To Unidentified
To William Wright (Dan De Quille)
1 May 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CLjC, UCCL 01273)
To William Wright (Dan De Quille)
1 May 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CLjC, UCCL 01273)
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farmington avenue, hartford.
Apl. 30
May 1.
Gentlemen:
Dear Dan:
Dear Dan:
Your second just received.1explanatory note My boy, you have material enough, property2explanatory note worked up, for two big books. Therefore, come along here & write one of them.
Yrs Ever
Mark.
A Don’t have the blues—d you don’t need them.
References
- The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011.
- 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
- Berkove, Lawrence I. “ ‘Nobody Writes to Anybody Except to Ask a Favor’: New Correspondence between Mark Twain and Dan De Quille.” Mark Twain Journal 26 (Spring): 2–21 1988
MS, James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California (CLjC).
L6 , 473; Berkove 1988, 3, 8, MS facsimile and transcription.
see the commentary for 29 Mar and 4 Apr 75 to Wrightclick to open link.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.