To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
22 November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 00542)

Buffalo, Nov. 22.

Friend Bliss:

Please send this beggar a cheap copy of the book & paste the enclosed into it.1

Have instructed my brother [to] get to Hartford with all convenient dispatch. Frank’s “ounce” is not bad for a novice.

Yrs

Mark.

[letter docketed:] [and] Mark Twain | Nov 22/70 | Author

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1 Presumably an autograph for insertion in The Innocents Abroad. The beggar has not been identified.

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Willard S. Morse Collection, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR).

Previous publication: L4, 247; laid in a copy of The Innocents Abroad (American Publishing Company, 1869) donated to CtY in 1942 by Walter F. Frear.