To James R. Osgood
26 March 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01931)
26 March 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01931)
Mch 26.
My Dear Osgood—
Now before you forget it, send me some of those damphool “ready letter-writers.” I want some “Forms” for epistles.
Thanks for the figures. They foot up $31,000 for 62,000 books; Bliss’s foot up $42,000 for the same number.
I think that if I had had you to hurl items through the press & prepare the market for the “Tramp,” the sale would have been double. Bliss never had a bit of sense about working the newspapers.
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
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
- Webster, Samuel Charles. Mark Twain, Business Man. Edited by Samuel Charles Webster. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1946
MS, Rogers Memorial Room, MH-H (shelf mark bMS Thr 470, 25).
MTBus, 135.
The Henry M. Rogers and Kathleen Rogers Collection was donated to MH in 1930.
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