21 October 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Mather, UCCL 11532)
Mrs. Moulton is a pleasant body & one you might write directly to, or go & see her., if you prefer. If there’s nothing in it, there’s no harm done. I would like to see them all quit the “trade”—still, if they prefer to stick to the “trade,” nobody is much damaged but themselves. I hope you will sell a pile of Howells’s book when it comes out—& Harte’s. The effect will be good.1explanatory note
Mrs. Moulton is still stringing out her summer at Pomfret, Conn. , where ver
We are going to try to make the play run 200 nights in New York2explanatory note
letter docketed: ✓ and Sam’l Clemens. | Oct. 21 ″74
Howells and Bliss, with the intercession of Charles Dudley Warner, had been negotiating for a history of Venice to be published as a subscription book by the American Publishing Company. They did not come to terms, however, and Howells did not write the book. Bliss published Harte’s Gabriel Conroy in 1876 (see Howells 1979, 55–56, and 5 July 75 to Howells, n. 4click to open link).
References
- 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
- 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
- Howells, William Dean. W. D. Howells, Selected Letters, Volume 2: 1873–1881. Edited and annotated by George Arms and Christoph K. Lohmann. Textual editors Christoph K. Lohmann and Jerry Herron. Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1979
MS, collection of William G. Mather.
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