To Charles L. Webster
19 December 1883 • 2nd of 2 (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02834)
19 December 1883 • 2nd of 2 (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02834)
Dc 19.
Dr Charley—
It occurs to me that you could have got that information in 24 hours by paying the d Dr Sunday Mercury’s dramatic editor $10 to furnish it to you on a piece of paper. Do it, & let’s hurry along.
Yrs
S L C
But we had decided on this procedure, hadn’t we?
I went to Boston, but I had no “business” to talk, & didn’t talk any. It was a social occasion. I could not have talked about this ignorant & stupid piece of work & kept my temper.
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, 229–30.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.