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Source: Pacific Book Auction Galleries (San Francisco, Calif.), 204.254 facsimile ([])

Cue: "Please mail or send in your own way, a *cloth*"

Source format: "MS facsimile"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2017-08-29T16:13:21

Revision History: VF | skg 2015-01-23 corrected typo in hyperabbr title and added abbr title | vf 2017-08-29 to 1875 from the incorrect 1871

Published on MTPO: 2009

Print Publication: v4

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To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
16 February 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: Pacific Book Auction, 16 March 2000, no. 204,
item 254, UCCL 12163)
Friend Bliss:

Please mail or send in your own way, a cloth copy of Innocents Abroad to

Sidney Moffett

New Market

Shenandoah Co, Va;

& charge to my ac/

Yrs
Mark.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, Pacific Book Auction, 16 March 2000, no. 204, lot 254. At the time of sale, the MS was tipped into a copy of volume 1 of the 25-volume of the Edition De Luxe of Writings of Mark Twain, published by the American Publishing Company, SLC 1899–1907. A printout of the auction catalogue is available in the Mark Twain Papers.

Previous Publication:

Newly published on MTPO, 2010.

Provenance:

Offered for sale from the library of Sheldon Cooper.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

References

  1. 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
  2. SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). The Writings of Mark Twain. Edition de Luxe. 25 vols. Limited to 1,000 copies. Hartford: American Publishing Company. Copies 488 and 513 are in CU-MARK. 1899–1907
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