15 January 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 02338)
Hand the check & bill to Newman & get a receipt to date if you can: . His man has been up & straightened out our bells—but he it was who tangled them; therefore I don’t wish to pay anything for the untangling. In this check for $18.95 I am actually paying Newman for tangling the bells—& for keeping them tangled 2 months.
Hold on——why is he charging me 18 hours time? That is nonsense. He was to attend to this house whenever he was sending a man to Hartford. The man was never to come specially. What I really owe is “Expenses $4” & about three hours time. See what he says to that.
I like your circular first rate.
I’ll enclose that oath in another envelop—am going down town this afternoon.
closing paragraph and signature written over the following, which appears upside down:
W H Daggett (awnings
71 Asylum
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, 208.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.