To Charles L. Webster
28 December 1884 • Pittsburgh, Pa. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 03075)
28 December 1884 • Pittsburgh, Pa. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 03075)
Pittsburgh, Dec. 28/84.
Dear Charley—
We are a couple of mugginses. Suppose you & I should die?— Transfer that $3,000 to the account of C L WebsterⒶemendation & Co as agreed the other day; & then put all the rest of the money in Mrs. Olivia L. Clemens’s name & send her one of that bank’s check books. Then you & I can die if we want to, & there will be no complications.
I saw one of Estes & Lauriat[’]s chief men on the train & he said the firm supposed my book was coming out before the holidays, or they would not have put in that ad. I said we couldn’t help what they “supposed,” & we should have to require them to pay for supposing such injurious things.
Yrs Truly
S L
Clemens
Emendations and Textual Notes
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, 288–89.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.