26 September 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NN-BGC, UCCL 02591)
Cable didn’t come. However, I wasn’t expecting him or depending on him. But it wasn’t any matter, for Gerhardt doesn’t need a picture of me, & if he does he can get it at Falk’s, who has made a large one in profile. All he will need, now, is a suitable picture of Cable. I want the things to be made by Gerhardt—it will advertise him.
Give G. W. my love, & tell him he didn’t disappoint me, I wasn’t looking for him.
Enclosing photo of a silouette made by a clergyman’s wife here. Might be next thing, & new, for programmes in the lecture halls.
Which reminds me. We must have programmes which will not rattle. No paper allowed. Now set your invention to work. A program can be rattled in our hall one evening, but that’ll be the last time that that crime will be perpetrated during our season.
Let me see. Programs might be printed on cards, one-half the size of this envelop or this silouette-card—too small, you see, to be used as a fan.
If we send well-engraved small portraits ahead, country with brief biographical sketches, country papers would insert them fre gratis in news columns, though city papers wouldn’t.
References
- New York Public Library, Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection, New York
- 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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
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