Elisha Bliss, Jr. to Samuel L. Clemens
?19 November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (Typed transcription by or for Albert Bigelow Paine:
CU-MARK, UCCL 12486 and UCLC 50387)
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Am. Pub. Co. But all right—I am willing. Only I know this—that if you take the place, with an air of perfect confidence in yourself, never once letting any thing show in your bearing but a quiet, modest, entire & perfect confidence in your ability to do pretty much anything in the world, Bliss will think you are the very man he needs—but don’t show any shadow of timidity or unsoldierly diffidence, for that sort of thing is fatal to advancement.
I warn you thus because you are naturally given to knocking your pot over in this way when a little judicious conduct would make it boil.
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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
Typed transcription by or for Albert Bigelow Paine, CU-MARK.
Newly published on MTPO, 2010.
Revised, March 2019.
Newly published on MTPO, 2010; Revised, 2019.
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