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.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ proof-reader ● proof- | reader
Ⓐ OVER ● capitals simulated, not
underscored
References
- The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, CLjC.
MicroPUL, reel 2.