To James B. Pond
15 November 1884 • Boston, Mass. (MS, in pencil: NN-BGC, UCCL 03025)
15 November 1884 • Boston, Mass. (MS, in pencil: NN-BGC, UCCL 03025)
Boston, 15th.
My Dear Pond—
Louder advertising is absolutely necessary. We must have, in every town & city, one or two or half a dozen vast red posters with the single line,
two lines enclosed in a box:Mark Twain—Cable.
No. 16—Op. House.
—little poster at bottom for date & place, as above.
And we must have men to patrol the streets with bill-boards on their backs. We must resort to any methods—& if we then still have such houses as we had to-dayⒶemendation & last night, it will mean that we can’t draw & better quit.
Hurry up, old man!
Yrs Truly
Mark.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ to-day ● to- | day
References
- New York Public Library, Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection, New York
- 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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, in pencil, NN-BGC.
MicroPUL, reel 2.