To
Charles Scribner and Company
25 June 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 11850)
25 June 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 11850)
Elmira, N. Y. June 25
saturday
Dr Sirs:
Please send me Dr. Bushnell’s volume entitled “Christian Nurture,”1explanatory note to above address, & charge to
YrsⒶemendation Truly
S. L. Clemens
Explanatory Notes
1
A book on child rearing and family life by Horace Bushnell (1802–76), the eminent Hartford Congregational clergyman. The Clemenses wanted it because Olivia was now about three months pregnant. It is likely that Clemens wrote to Scribner and Company, at 654 Broadway in New York, who had issued several printings of it since 1861 (Wilson 1870, 1092).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
Yrs ●
‘rs’ conflated
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1995
- Wilson, H., comp. Trow’s New York City Directory, . . . Vol. LXXXIV For the Year Ending May 1, 1871. New York: John F. Trow. 1870
MS facsimile, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK). The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 1992 by Mrs. T. V. Hedgpeth, who sent a photocopy to CU-MARK.
L4 , 158–159.