To Charles L. Webster
14 August 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02944)
14 August 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02944)
Aug. 14.
Dear Charley—
The missing galleys are the ones I sent to Howells, no doubt. In that case I don’t need to re-read them.
If the all the proofs had been as well read as the first 2 or 3 chapters were, I should not have needed to see the revises at all. On the contrary it was the worst & silliest proof-reading I have ever seen. It was never read by copy at all—not a single galley of it.
As to the game, the only hurry is this: our caveat had only a year to run, I think—& the year is now just about up.
Yrs
S L C
MS, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 272.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.