To Daniel Slote
24 February 1881 • Boston, Mass. (MS: NPV, UCCL 01914)
24 February 1881 • Boston, Mass. (MS: NPV, UCCL 01914)
james r. osgood. edwald l. osgood. benjamin h. ticknor. thomas b. ticknor.
james r. osgood & co., publishers.
211 tremont street.
boston,
Feb. 24
188
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Dear Dan—
The plate is beautiful—but where are the colors? If throwing water on the hot plate produces those rich colors that was in were in the first plate, then let’s throw on the water.
Yes—I’ll come down the 26th—get the reserved seats if you can.
Yrs Ever
Sam
In haste.
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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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 Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MicroPUL , reel 2.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.