To
Orion Clemens
28 January 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: NPV, UCCL 01527)
28 January 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: NPV, UCCL 01527)
Monday.
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My Dear Bro—Am just back from New York tired to death, but must write a line to unconfuse you. I don’t know who started that joke about my being connected with the Courant. I am connected with it only by telephone & in no other way. They send me a doctor when I ask for one; they send telegrams dictated by me; they receive telegrams for me & telephone the contents to me; in many ways they save me time, & are very kind & accommodating; but I have no more to do with owning or editing the Courant than you have. If you should see an in
remainder of letter missing
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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, correspondence card, Jean Webster McKinney Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.