To Charles L. Webster
3 August 1883 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: NPV, UCCL 02819)
3 August 1883 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: NPV, UCCL 02819)
in pencil:
I hope you are enjoying your holiday—you needed one.
We send love to Annie & the children.
in ink:Aug. 3./83.
Dear Charley—
Never mind about applying for a patent. I see that the caveat is entirely sufficient, for the present.
I have sent Munn & Co the required $25. I have also asked them to examine patent-office records & see whether my game-idea is old or new, patentable or unpatentable.
Yrs
S L C
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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.