22 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript by Dana S. Ayer, WU-MU; and sales catalog: Anderson
Galleries, 6–7 November 1924, no. 1870, lot 78, UCCL 01791)
I feel rich at last,Ⓐemendation my boy—may the Vaporizer’s tribe increase. I was meditating reform,Ⓐemendation but I have postponed, now—I want to see how Mr. Furbish’s stimulant is going to taste,Ⓐemendation first. Give me some Vaporizer news, now and then, when you have any.Ⓐemendation I like Vaporizer better thanⒶemendation Generator—Generator always had such an indelicate obstetrical sound, some how.Ⓐemendation
All right—we will come and see you in your home if we ever get a chance. We should like that, first-rate. AboutⒶemendation a fortnight hence, I expect to run down to Washington for a few days, on a sort of copyright-law project. You and I could have a good time. WillⒶemendation you go?
With the love of this tribe to yourn
All variants between the source texts are reported below. Adopted readings followed by ‘(MTP)’ are editorial emendations of the source readings.
References
- Madison Memorial Union Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
No copy-text. The text is based on a transcript and a printed source, each of which derives independently from the manuscript: a handwritten transcript by Dana Ayer (Tr) and a partial printing in Anderson Galleries (P). A typed transcript of Tr at WU-MU made by Brownell is derivative and provides no uniquely authorial readings.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
See Brownell Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link for information about the Ayer transcript.