To Chatto and Windus
23 July 1878 • Heidelberg, Germany (Sales catalog: Unidentified, unknown date, UCCL 12330)
23 July 1878 • Heidelberg, Germany (Sales catalog: Unidentified, unknown date, UCCL 12330)
THE DEFINITIVE EDITION. The fly-leaf was signed by Mark Twain in 1906 in anticipation of the present definitive edition of his works. S. L. Clemens, Mark Twain.Ⓐemendation In Volume I of this particular set is pasted A ONE PAGE HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO “MY DEAR C. & W.”, DATED JULY 23, FROM GERMANY. The letter has to do with money matters, written undoubtedly to his publisher. He also asks for a copy of Ouida’sⒶemendation Friendship. Bound in full dark blue morocco, highly decorated in gilt on the sides as well as the back. t.e.g.
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
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). The Definitive Edition of the Works of Mark Twain New York: Gabriel Wells, 1923. 1923
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
Unidentified sales catalog, unknown date, clipping in CU-MARK. At the time of the sale, the MS letter was “pasted” in a copy of SLC 1922–25, vol. 1.
MicroPUL, reel 1.