21 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 01788)
Wm A. Seaver is now & has been for many generations, editor of Harper’s Drawer. Send him a cloth book—write on the fly-leaf remainder in pencil: paste this card on the fly leaf—& charge to—well, it is in effect a press copy, as he is an editor. Do as conscience shall dictate.
I’m going to Yurup in two or three weeks, and unless you send me your Tramp, which purports to be inaccessible to anyone but subscribers, I shall positively be without any intellectual hash, cod, or anything else lovely and nourishing. It would be a great and good thing if I could steal a few sweet jokes from it for the Drawer.
Ain’t you coming down here within a couple of weeks? I would cherfully spend the price of a tramp in salooning you at the Union or Lotos,—and never shed a tear.
S. L. Clemens | Apr 20, 80
References
- 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
- Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn.
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
- Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, Conn.
MS, Willard S. Morse Collection, Collection of American Literature, CtY-BR.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
The Morse Collection was donated to CtY in 1942 by Walter F. Frear.
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