To Unidentified
1 September 1879 • SS Gallia, en route from Liverpool, England, to New York, N.Y. (MS, in pencil, of inscription in Mallock 1878:
Hyman, UCCL 12027)
1 September 1879 • SS Gallia, en route from Liverpool, England, to New York, N.Y. (MS, in pencil, of inscription in Mallock 1878:
Hyman, UCCL 12027)
in an unidentified hand: This is a book wit
Certainly it is.
Yrs Truly
S. L. Clemens
Mark
Twain
“Gallia,”
Sept. 1/79.
the new republic
, a book
which treats of lightⒶemendation things seriously; of serious things, lightly; of all things wittily,—which destroys
without
remaking, suggests without satisfying, inquires without answering, stops without ending.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
which treats of light ●
partly rubbed away
References
- Mallock, William Hurrell. The New Republic; or, Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House. New York: Scribner and Welford. 1878
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, of inscription in Mallock 1878, collection of Dan Hyman.
MicroPUL, reel 1.