To Francis Augustus Teall
22 April 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: ViU, UCCL 01938)
22 April 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: ViU, UCCL 01938)
Hartford, Apl. 22/81.
F. A. Teall, Esq
Dear Sir: The sketch is accurate. The items proper for addition, I believe, are these:
His later books, & dates of publication, are as follows: “The Gilded Age,” (by Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner), 1873; “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,[”] 1876; “Sketches,” 1877; “A Tramp Abroad,” 1880. The six books have sold, in the aggregate, in the United States, nearly half a million copies.
That is all I think of. I have a book in press, but as it will not be out till November, I could not legitimately crowd it into the list.
Very Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens
References
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, ViU.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 15 May 1962.
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