To
Elisha Bliss, Jr.
9 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Karanovich, UCCL 11969)
9 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Karanovich, UCCL 11969)
Mch 9, 1874.
Friend Bliss—
Damnation! Please send a cloth “Roughing It” to B. P. Shillaber, Chelsea, Mass. I wish people would ask for all the books at once, & save me a trifle of note-writing.1explanatory note
Yrs
Mark.
letter docketed: ✓ and Twain and M. Twain | March 9 1874
Explanatory Notes
1
The letter from humorist Benjamin P. Shillaber requesting a copy of Roughing It does not survive (see L4 , 142–43 n. 1).
References
- Collection of Nick Karanovich
- 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
- Christie. Autographs and Manuscripts. Sale no. 8055 (12 November). New York: Christie, Manson and Woods International. 1997
- 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
MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 2001 by Nick Karanovich, who provided a photocopy to the Mark Twain Papers.
L6 , 64; Christie 1997, lot 15.