
5 May 1868 • San Francisco, Calif.
(Typed transcript made for Albert Bigelow Paine and
handwritten transcript made by Dana S. Ayer:
CU-MARK and WU-MU, UCCL 02731)
E. [Bliss, Jr. Esq.]
[Dr Sir—]
The Alta people, after some hesitation, have given me permission to use my printed letters, & have ceased to think of publishing them themselves in book form. I am steadily at work, & shall start east with the completed [manuscript] about the middle of June.1
[I] lectured here on the trip the other night—over sixteen hundred dollars in gold in the house—every seat taken & paid for before night.
Yrs Truly
Mark Twain
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary



Tr1 | Typed transcript made for Albert Bigelow Paine, CU-MARK |
Tr2 | Typed transcript made for Albert Bigelow Paine, CU-MARK |
Tr3 | Handwritten transcript by Dana S. Ayer, WU-MU |
Previous publication:
MTB, 1:363, partial publication; MTL,
1:152–53; L2, 215–16.
Provenance:
See Paine Transcripts and Brownell Collection in Description of
Provenance.
Emendations, adopted readings, and textual notes:
[two-line brace] (Tr3) • [not in] (Tr1, Tr2)
May 5./68. (Tr1, Tr2) • May ~,/~⁁ (Tr3)
Bliss, Jr. Esq. (Tr1, Tr2) • ~⁁ ~⁁ ~⁁ (Tr3)
Dr Sir— (MTP) • Dr. ~— (Tr1, Tr2); Dr ~: (Tr3)
manuscript (Tr3) • Manuscript (Tr1, Tr2)
[¶] (Tr2, Tr3) • [four-em ¶] (Tr1)