23 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01793)
If you want this, won’t you either have some of your office-folks copy it—or put it in type—at once, so I can have it in the course of 4 or 5 days? I wrote it to read at a private house next week (among other stuff) for the benefit of a charity. If you will send me 2 proofs, I’ll send one to Chatto myself, & write him a soft-spoken letter & mollify him a little, —throu —thoughⒶemendation it is through his own carelessness that he is out too late behind us with the new book & therefore has doubtless lost his English copyright.
P. S. It may be that this subject has been treated by somebody while we were gone over the water; in which case we will suppress this.
References
- Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.
- 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
- MTHL. Mark Twain–Howells Letters. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson, with the assistance of Frederick Anderson. 2 vols. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1960
MS, MH-H, shelf mark bMS Am 1784 (98).
MTHL , 1:302.
See Howells Letters in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.