To Charles L. Webster
5? January 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02330)
5? January 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02330)
james r. osgood & co. publishers
boston.
Jany 3, 1883.
S. L. Clemens, Esq.
Dear Sir,
We are beginning to receive reports from canvassers, with applications for the premiums offered for the largest bona fide lists of subscribers. Kindly give us such instructions as you deem necessary for the method of awarding these premiums.
Yrs truly,
James R. Osgood & Co.
Charley, if there are any instructions to be given, you may give them—I will not interest myself in anything connected with this wretched God-damned book.
S L C
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If you know of no other instructions, you can write them & tell them I say invent instructions of their own.
Emendations and Textual Notes
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capitals simulated, not underscored
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, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus , 207.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.