To Charles L. Webster
6 July 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 08930)
6 July 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 08930)
July 6/84.
Dear Charley—
Send to me, right away, ab a book by Lieut. Col. Dodge, U S A, called “25 Years on the Frontier”—or some such title—I don’t remember just what. Maybe it is “25 Years Among the Indians,” or maybe “25 Years in the Rocky Mountains.” But the name of the author will guide you. I think he has written only the one book; & so any librarian can tell you the title of it.
I want several other personal narratives of life & adventure out yonder on the Plains & in the Mountains, ‸ if you can run across them.—Ⓐemendationespecially life among the Indians. Send what you can find. I mean to take Huck Finn out there.
Send me Washington Irving’s
Ys T[r]uly
S L Clemens
Emendations and Textual Notes
MS, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 264–65
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.