6 October 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 02287)
Find out, fr in Chicago, how my old books are now sold—by ◊ canvassers? or are they ordered by individuals, or by s publishers? Are What is to account for their continuous & regular sale? It is a sale which keeps well right along; this last quarter equals what they used to be, in old Bliss’s time. How are these sales accomplished? Find out the method while in Chicago.
I’ve got an idea. The Am. Pub. Co. might be crowded, by this suit, into this compromise—I to withdraw the suit, & they to turn over my copyrights to me one or two years from now?.
SuchBook contracts seem to be usually limited to 3 years or 5, but as I had the monumental fool of the 19th century for a lawyer, these endure forever.
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.
MTBus, 203–4.
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