10 and 11 January 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 02148)
I want to try that Artotype experiment. Let them do Jean for me. If 50 copies are cheaper than 100, take the 50—if not, take the 100.
Don’t ask me what design to use in brass—use any you want to—only, rush it through.
OVERⒶemendation
boxed in upper margin: Jan. 12 1 th
Yes, I would wait a little & let Page reduce the terms if he will. (I am convinced that that machine can be made perfect & thoroughly satisfactory— so we will hang along, & not drop it.)
There is a suspicious difference between Bliss’s last check & this one. Yes, tell me your idea of getting book-estimates in N. Y. is sound. You r Run up here, whenever you are ready, & make a search here & at Perkins’s, for all the documents A. & G. will need. Meantime, order Bliss to send you cloth copies of my books & tell him to charge them to me. That will set him to suspecting something’s brewing—but we shan’t mind that.
I’ve found here in the house, great big fraudulent regular scrap-books of Slote’s, made years ago, under a double patent—& he doubtless paid no royalty to me. My name is not mentioned on 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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 182–83 (11 January portion only); MicroPUL, reel 2.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.