To Charles L. Webster
2 September 1881 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: NPV, UCCL 02022)
2 September 1881 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: NPV, UCCL 02022)
Elmira, Sept. 2.
Dear Charley—
I am going to send this design to you. Ⓐemendation by this mail. It is for the back & side of my new book. Take perfect care of it, & don’t let it get injured. Put your very best artist on it (if you aint afraid to tackle it), take note of the time it takes him, & have him make the best job he can of it. When done, make a m Kaolatype cast from it, then go up to Chelsea & have it cast in iron. (But see Osgood, first, & have it cast in brass or iron, as he shall prefer.) Put her through as quickly as first-class work will permit.
But if you darsn’t undertake the thing, ship the design to
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Emendations and Textual Notes
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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.