6 June 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02990)
The cheap book is given up—but keep your figures, we might need them another time.
Y I revised, & doctored, & worked at the bicycle article, but it was no use, I didn’t like it at all—so I tore it up. Tear up the MS. one in your possession. I will not tackle the subject again till next fall. I go to work, now, on regular work, as soon as we reach Elmira.
If you see Dana, tell him I can’t do any miscellaneous work in the summer—I have to have all the time for regular work. Give him no notion that I’m going to write anything for his purpose.
Charley, there is a drawingroom car on the Lackawanna train which we usually take, & it has larger compartments. I want a large compartment for June 18, & 3 chairs besides. You may attend to it. Can’t afford a special this year.
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, 258.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.