To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
7 November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00527)

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Buf. Nov. 7. 1870.

Friend Bliss:

This is to acknowledge recpt of your draft for 8 $835 & odd cents, for which I thank you. Statement all O. K.1

Born to us this day, a boy. Mother & child doing only tolerably well but we hope for the best. Tell the Twichells.

Yrs in haste

Clemens.

[letter docketed:] [and in ink:] Mark Twain | Nov 7/70 | Author

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1 The check and statement were for fifth quarter (1 Aug–31 Oct 70) sales of The Innocents Abroad, amounting to about 5,000 copies (Hirst 1975, 317). Since the corresponding royalty would have been about $1,000, Bliss may have made some deductions, including the cost of books Clemens had recently requested (21? Sept 70, 28 Oct 70, and 29 Oct 70, all to Bliss).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous publication: L4, 226–227.

Provenance:see Mendoza Collection in Description of Provenance.