5 December 1879 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CLjC, UCCL 01733)
Come to my help again! See if the musical box people haven’t got an expert who can run up here right away & tell me what is the matter with a $500-box which I ordered in Geneva, & what sort of a box it is, & how much it is damaged & what it will cost to repair it. The man will need to be a person who has actually made or repaired boxes, I judge, for this thing is so mysterious a machine that it will easily baffle an amateur. The matter is important, because I am about to put a chapter in my book which must not go in if the Geneva people have not done me a dishonesty.
I hope this won’t be any serious trouble to you, for I don’t want to tax a willing friend too much.
I drew out of Dan Slote’s speculation because my lawyer insisted that it was risky, although it promised mighty-well & seemed to have a deal of money in it.
References
- The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, CLjC.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
CLjC purchased the MS in July 1966 as part of a collection of Frank Fuller correspondence.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.