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Source: New York Public Library, Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection, New York ([NN-BGC])

Digitized images: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6393f5b0-f52a-012f-37dc-58d385a7bbd0

Cue: "Thanks for the"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2022

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This edited text supersedes the previously published text
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To Andrew Chatto
per Fanny C. Hesse
10 December 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NN-BGC, UCCL 02519)
Hartford Dec 10th/77
Dear Mr Chatto,1explanatory note

Thanks for the check (£15.0.0.) and for the other half of the Arabian Nights, since you are determined to do penance.2explanatory note

I may possibly have an article soon. I wrote it a couple of days ago, but I may not publish it for a month or two.3explanatory note

Yours very truly
Samℓ L. Clemens.
Pr F. C. H.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, NN-BGC.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

It is not known when the MS became part of the Berg Collection, given by Dr. Albert A. Berg to NN in 1940, but continuously enlarged since then.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 

Clemens answered the following letter (CU-MARK):

UCLC32603
office of “belgravia”
of “the gentleman’s magazine” & of “academy notes”
chatto & windus publishers                    74 & 75, piccadilly,
london. w. 23 Nov 187 7
Dear Sir

I have much pleasure in enclosing cheque for 15£, for the 3rd & 4th instalments of your “Random Notes”. I am very sorry that you have brought them to a close so soon, but hope that you may let us have something every month, even if you do not simultane it in America

I shall be very glad if you will allow us to condone the Arabian Nights blunder without further troubling you.

Yours very faithfully
Andrew Chatto

Saml. L. Clemens Esq

2 See 7 Nov 1877 to Chatto.
3 The new article was “The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton,” a story of courtship by telephone. It appeared simultaneously in the Atlantic Monthly and Chatto’s Belgravia in March 1878 (SLC 1878d, 1878e).

References

  1. New York Public Library, Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection, New York
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, New York
  5. University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
  6. SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). “The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton.” Atlantic Monthly 41 (March): 320–30. Reprinted in SLC 1878a [bib12286], 102–30. 1878
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