27 October 1881 • 2nd of 2 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 02074)
In setting up & printing in Canada, we run one risk—that the sheets may be bought or stolen, & the a pirated edition brought out ahead of us. How would it do to leave out a signature, (in our Canadian reprint, up yonder,) here & there, (until a few days before Canadian publishing-date?
Howells’s notice is superb. And it will pitch the y key for the rest of the American criticisms. You are going to send books, now, to—to—to whom?—the press in general, or to only certain wise ones. Ⓐemendation O, no, I remember, now—can't let a copy go out, lest it be construed as “publication.” (I have got a very good memory, but can seldom find it.)
In a hurry, to catch the morning mail,
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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
- Hill, Hamlin, ed. Mark Twain’s Letters to His Publishers, 1867–1894. Edited by Hamlin Hill. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1967
MS facsimile, CU-MARK.
MTLP, 143.
MS facsimile and transcript provided in 1943 by Joseph Rosenberg of Chicago, who presumably owned the original at the time.
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