16 December 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 01872)
I am very sorry indeed to hear you have been sick; but very glad to hear you will be around again soon.
I shall arrive in New York Monday evening, with Boston friends, to go to theatre & a Tile Club supper at midnight. Next morning, if you are well, we will have a talk & lo afterwards look in on Sneider., if at his shop.
My advice is, take Mr. Russell’s offer for the districts he has proposed to buy—one to be taken (&, I suppose, paid for) now, the others within a year if not meantime disposed of. The prices he offers seem fair. He does not need to see me. I could be of no service; this is business, & belongs to your department.
I wish you would send me a couple of my largest & bro Ⓐemendation largest Scrap-Books. Mrs. Clemens wants them for something or other in Susie & Bay’s department. Sent you a German book to be re-bound the other day; hope it arrived safe.
References
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.