To
James R. Osgood
17 November 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript by Bernard DeVoto, correspondence
card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01854)
17 November 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript by Bernard DeVoto, correspondence
card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01854)
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Nov. 17.
My Dear Osgood—
You just look into one of the big libraries, & you’ll find all those books; if I should order Frank Bliss to send them to you he would think he smelt a rat, & I’m not ready for him to begin to smell a rat yet. Most of your booksellers keep my books under their counters, too—you just borrow them, won’t you?
I sort of hoped you might decide to drop in & play a game of billiards on your way up, but I judge you ain’t going to.
Yrs Truly
S L
C
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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
- Clemens, Cyril. Mark Twain the Letter Writer. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Boston: Meador Publishing Company. 1932
Transcript by Bernard DeVoto, correspondence card, CU-MARK.
Clemens 1932, 17.
The MS was owned by John S. Mayfield in 1932, when Cyril Clemens first published the text, and it was still in his possession in 1941, when he lent the original to Bernard DeVoto, who transcribed it.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.