To Orion Clemens
3 November 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 03019)
3 November 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 03019)
Nov. 3/84.
My Dear Bro—
A lot of us have ing been examining Ma’s picture, tonight, & cannot decide what the work is—whether colored photograph, or pastille, or water-color, or what. ? We agree upon one point only: that it is admirable work, with the details most delicately & pains-takingly wrought out. What is it?
Yrs
Sam
on the verso, canceled with two crisscrossing lines:
Ich habe r Mühe gegeben, das zu thunⒶemendation was Sie wollen.
Was Sie wollten das ich thunⒶemendation solle, das habe ich ja gethan.
ich
Sie begehrte dass ich Etwas thun sollte; das selbe habe ich gethan, aber durch Mühe mich genirtⒶemendation zu thunⒶemendation.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ thun ● ‘un’ conflated
Ⓐ thun ● ‘un’ conflated
Ⓐ genirt ● sic
Ⓐ thun ● ‘un’ conflated
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, 280–81.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.