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Source: Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane ([CtWep1])

Cue: "P.S.—Perhaps"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2012-06-04T09:28:52

Revision History: HES 2002-10-10 source was C4 | ldm 2012-06-04

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Francis E. Bliss
13 June 1879 • Paris, France (MS: Sotheby’s, New York, December 1993, UCCL 01668)

P. S.—Perhaps you’d bett as well not have any of the pictures processed till you get them all, Frank. Then you could better determine which of them to make large & which to make small. It is only a suggestion—you must do as seems best, you know.

Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
letter docketed:

S. L. Clemens | June 13.79

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, collection of Robert Daley, seen at Sotheby’s, New York, while awaiting sale in December 1993.

Previous Publication:

MTLP , 118.

Provenance:

This letter from the Daley collection was offered for sale by Sotheby’s in December 1993 (Sotheby’s catalog, 10–11 December 1993, no. 6515, lot 214).

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

References

  1. 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
  2. Hill, Hamlin, ed. Mark Twain’s Letters to His Publishers, 1867–1894. Edited by Hamlin Hill. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1967
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