9 July 1881 • Branford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 01983)
So it appears that the scrap book sales have fallen off just one half in the past six months;—i.e. from 50,000 copies a year, to $28,000.
I return to you Slote’s ck,—make it a loan to K. Co. for use in K Eng. Co business. Send Perkins a note for it.
O, I’ll tell you about that $1000.71. The firm owed it to me on Scrap-book y royalties when they failed. It seems to me that they owed me $2000—that is, a whole year; but I am absolutely sure they owed me a half-year’s royalties. But haven’t you stated the figures incorrectly? You put it $1000.71/1000 Ⓐemendation—my recollection is 100 $1071.00/100.—you see?—seventy-one dollars instead of cents.
I am so anxious to see the brass plates that I believe I will telegraph for them.
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
- Webster, Samuel Charles. Mark Twain, Business Man. Edited by Samuel Charles Webster. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1946
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV. The MS is inscribed with three different writing media: Clemens wrote the letter in dark blue ink; someone practiced three capital Ts in cursive above the letterhead and arithmetical sums below the signature with a pencil; someone filled in the letterhead dateline and made a doodle below the date with dark brown ink. Only the illegible characters entered into the letterhead have been transcribed.
MTBus , 161.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.