To Charles L. Webster
30? October 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: CLjC, UCCL 11181)
30? October 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: CLjC, UCCL 11181)
beginning of letter missing
Charley, your proof-readerⒶemendation is an idiot; & not only an idiot, but blind; & not only blind, but partly dead.
Some of the spacing—most of it, in fact—is absolutely disgraceful; but this goddamned ass never sees it. By God he can’t see anything; he is blind & dead & rotten, & ought to be thrown into the sewer.
S L C
OVERⒶemendation
That compositor Hoefer, is not a compositor at all, he is a 3-weeks apprentice.
MS, in pencil, CLjC.
MicroPUL, reel 2.