10 October 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02850)
Proof received. That is the idea. “K’d” is a very good abbreviation. So is “Bat.” KeepⒶemendation that up. Use any intelligible abbreviation.
Now go & on & put the whole thing in type; and mind, don’t send me first-proof; & don’t send me first revise, either. Send me s the second-revise, after two first-proof & revise have been carefully read & carefully corrected. Save me what profanity you can. Orion’s MS is infernal.
When you send me said second-revise, send me the manuscript to compare it with.
Make a new board, Charley, with all improvements to date, & send it to me. There’s one which I think I mentioned, but am not sure:
That is, make the game only 400 years—and
Run the colored stripes across the top of the board, under below the title of the game:
T i t l e ⟦England⟧
canceled rectangular box, enclosing a row of dots and possibly words; all of the rows of dots below are enclosed in rectangular boxes
Accession. Length of reign. one or two words canceled End of reign.
10 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
Battles & Sieges.
8 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
Conspicuous matters.
5 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
Any Birth or Death.
3 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.