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Source: Peter Harrington Antiquarian Bookseller catalog, ([])

Cue: "All right—but I am very busy"

Source format: "Sales catalog"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: HES

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v6

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To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
11 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (Paraphrase: Parke-Bernet 1963, lot 53, UCCL 09682)

A.N.s., “Mark,” 1 p., 12mo; 11 Mar. 1874, to Mr. Bliss, his publisher, mentioning Warner, co-author of The Gilded Age.

Textual Commentary
11 March 1874 • To Elisha Bliss, Jr. • Hartford, Conn. • UCCL 09682
Source text(s):

Paraphrase, Parke-Bernet 1963, lot 53.

Previous Publication:

L6 , 65.

Provenance:

The MS was laid in a copy of the first volume of The Innocents Abroad, volume 1 of the DeLuxe Autograph Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain (London: Chatto and Windus, 1899–1907), together with two pages of manuscript from The Gilded Age.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

References

  1. Parke-Bernet. Exhibition and Sale at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Sale no. 2180 (20 March). New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries. 1963
  2. 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
  3. SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
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