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
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, 272.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.