To Orion Clemens
9 March 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MS: PBL, UCCL 00584)

Buf. 9th,

Dear Bro:

Tell Bliss “all right”—I will try to give him a chapter from the new book every month or nearly every month, for the Publisher. I have g

I have got several chapters (168 pages MS.) revised & ready for printers & artists, but for the sake of [security ]shall get somebody to copy it & then send the original to him.1 Thank him for promising to take care of our furniture.

[Yrs ]

Sam.

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1 One hundred sixty-eight pages would have taken Clemens through “the conjectured end of chapter 8, the pony-express incident” (RI 1993, 835, 838–40).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Robert B. Honeyman Collection, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. (PBL).

Previous publication: L4, 346.

Provenance:deposited at PBL in March 1957.

Emendations and textual notes:

security • [‘ty’ over miswritten ‘it’]

Yrs • [‘Y’ miswritten]