6 March 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02930)
This is the best luck I’ve had in 7 years. Get the Prang contract canceled, right away—don’t let him change his mind. You can’t imagine what a horrible 3-months’ job it would have been. I wouldn’t sign the Prang contract again, though it offered me ninety per cent.
Don’t make any mistake—get it canceled & torn up. I won’t even charge him anything for the 5 days I’ve already put on it—& they’re worth several hundred dollars apiece.
When [are] you going up to dig that money out of Osgood? Don’t let him bust on us.
Make your 15% on actor’s 65% if it you like—I suppose you know what you are basing it on, & whereas I haven’t any data to work on.
Bless my soul, I meant to make that dredfulⒶemendation calendar entirely original—every line of it!
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, 242.
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