To
Francis E. Bliss
23 October 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript by Dana S. Ayer: WU, UCCL 01844)
23 October 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript by Dana S. Ayer: WU, UCCL 01844)
Oct 23/80
Dear Frank—
This is to introduce a friend of mine—Mr. Sylvester Baxter of the Boston Herald. He wants to know all about the subscription book business. You can speak freely to him, for he will not print anything you do not want exposed. You said you would send me word how many copies of my various books have been sold since I first began to publish with you in 1869, but here is a week gone by and I reckon you have forgotten all about it.
Yrs truly
S. L. Clemens
References
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
Transcript by Dana S. Ayer, WU. Another transcript from the MS, published by Dawson’s Book Shop, shows no significant variants.
Dawson’s Book Shop catalog, October 1924, no. 35, item 30, partial publication; MicroPUL, reel 1.
See Brownell Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link for information about the Ayer transcript. The MS, which Ayer saw, was sold in 1924 by Dawson’s Book Shop along with a thirty-five volume set of SLC 1922–25.