To Charles L. Webster
19 August 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 01474)
19 August 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 01474)
Aug. 19.
Dear Charley—
If you have a copy of the Sle Sellers play, I wish you would send it to me.
If you haven’t, ask Howells if he has.
And if he hasn’t, I hope you will run up to Hartford at your very earliest cha “idle moment” & look in the safe & in the billiard room. There must be a copy somewhere.
I’m going to elaborate it into a novel.
Gerhardt is completing a most excellent bust of me.
Ys Truly
S L Clemens
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, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 273.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.