1 The auction catalog that supplies the text of Clemens’s note states that it was written “at the foot” of a letter from Redpath, which it describes merely as “regarding” Roughing It. Redpath’s letter was probably a negative reply to Clemens’s 20 April inquiry about whether he had received a copy of the book, “ordered ... to be sent a couple of weeks ago.” If Redpath was among the twenty-three people to whom Bliss shipped books on 30 March at Clemens’s order, he evidently failed to receive his copy (20 Mar 72 to Bliss [draft], n. 7). The present request could not have been written earlier than 23 April, one day after Redpath received Clemens’s 20 April letter (which was docketed on 22 April), nor later than 14 May, the day before Clemens asked Bliss to send Redpath “another” half-morocco copy.

2 The address of the Boston Lyceum Bureau.