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To Elisha Bliss, Jr., or Francis E. Bliss
per Telegraph Operator
31 January 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MS, copy received: CU-MARK, UCCL 00571)

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[the western union telegraph company. ]

[1257 ]
dated

Buffalo NY

187 1
received at

200

Jan. 31
to

E. Bliss or Frank 149 Asylym St
Have an appointment at Grand Hotel eleven tomorrow can you be there at noon 1

Clemens

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[telegram docketed:] check mark [and] Mark Twain | Jan 24/712

Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary

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1 The eleven o’clock appointment was with Isaac E. Sheldon or Francis P. Church, or both. In his subsequent meeting with Elisha Bliss, Clemens probably reported on his progress on Roughing It and answered Bliss’s objections to his commitments to Sheldon (27 Jan 71 to Bliss, n. 1; 27 Jan 71 to Sheldon, n. 1).

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2 Bliss’s clerk misread the telegram’s date, which was poorly written.

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

glyph Previous publication: L4, 324.

glyph Provenance:see Mendoza Collection in Description of Provenance.

glyph Emendations and textual notes:

the . . . company. • [words on telegram blank identical to those reported in the commentary for 7 Nov 70 to Langdon]

1257 • [possibly ‘1259’]