29 May 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, typewritten, from dictation: UkReU, UCCL 01623)
your note for fifteen hundred and nineteen pounds and one shilling is received, for which please accept my thanks and assurances that this result is eminently satisfactory.
your suggestion with regard to the manner of stimulating the demand for “the prince and pauper” seems wise and reasonable.
i have been gone six weeks down the mississippi river, but if i had been at home when your letter arrived, there would still not have been time to get additional matter to you for the sketch book though i have a sufficiency of it on hand. leaving out the excursion papers you will still have enough matter for the shilling book at any rate, but i suppose it is too late now to attempt anything bigger as we are proposing to publish about the first of june. i wish osgood had thought to send you the batch of sketches which he was not able to find room for.
References
- University of Reading Library, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire, England
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, typewritten, from dictation, UkReU.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
The archives of Chatto and Windus have been on deposit at UkReU since the late 1970s and early 1980s and make up a part of its collection of Records of British Publishing and Printing. Chatto and Windus was purchased by the Random House Group in 1987.
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