5 September 1884 • 2nd of 2 (MS: NPV, UCCL 01449)
Please hand these in at the Am. Ex. & make complaint inquiry for me. I paid up in full last March (I don’t know but you conveyed the check yourself) & I was to receive full dividend in September—but it appears that some of these shares are still called “half-paid.”
I do seem to be receiving a full dividend—ain’t I? Then why are the shares called “half-paid?” They must have got my check. Dog-gone it I don’t want to have to pay that money again—not if I can help it.
Ah, if Providence had only put it into your head to call for money ten days sooner! I could have sold my Union Pacific at 56—a profit of $3,400. I must sell to-day at 47 or along there. I’m out of luck this year.
You mustn’t feel it necessary to join teams with the Am Pub on Tom Sawyer unless you can make money by it.
Send Raymonds
Hand Raymond’s play to me when I pass through New York—or let one of your men do it if you are away. I can’t do anything to it till I get home. I will then add that speech.
We can’t re-write the play; but Raymond’s ideas are good, & if we had had them in the beginning we could have used them to good advantage.
References
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
- 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
- Webster, Samuel Charles. Mark Twain, Business Man. Edited by Samuel Charles Webster. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1946
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 275.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.