27? June 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02997)
See below
office of
charles l. webster & co., publishers,
658 broadway, cor. bond street,
mark twain’s books
and other publications. new york, June 25th 188 4
Dear Uncle Sam:
Your check for $6.719.45 came duly at hand, for which please receive thanks.
Enclosed is an ad, which I cut out of the New York World of June 23d.
What can we do about it? I will see that the Osgoods pay that balance.
Yours Truly
Chas. L. Webster
P.S. I send you more proof today
attached newspaper clipping, simulated line-by-line:
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
————————————
Mark Twain’s Works.
1. Roughing It . . . . . . . . paper covers, 50c.
2. Tramp Abroad . . . . . . " " 50c.
3. Prince and Pauper. . . . " " 50c.
4. Innocents Abroad . . . " " 50c.
5. Tom Sawyer . . . . . . . . " " 50c.
6. Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 50c.
7. Gilded Age . . . . . . . . . " " 50c.
Above sent post paid on receipt of price. Address
THE FRANK COKER NEWS CO.,
Talladoga, Ala.
Dr Charley: If the American Pub Co will employ Alexander & Green, & pay ¾ of the expenses of a suit against these will immediately bring suit & smash these pirates, all right; but otherwise I know what I will do. Notify Bliss that I expect him to protect & defend my copyrights (all that his Co has anything to do with) promptly & thoroughly. Ask him to tell you what he is going to do, & when.
Keep watch, & if he does nothing, let me presently know about it.
P.S. Your aunt Livy found that chairⒶemendation exceedingly comfortable.
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
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Letters to Clemens. Edited by Paul Machlis, with the assistance of Deborah Ann Turner. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page atMTPO.] 1992
- 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. Clemens’s letter is written on Webster’s letter of 25 June 1884 (UCLC 42185).
MTBus, 261–62.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.