1 In 1873 Andrew Chatto and W. E. Windus formed a partnership to succeed the late London publisher John Camden Hotten, who that spring had published Ambrose Bierce’s first collection, The Fiend’s Delight. By Dod Grile. In November 1873 they published Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California by Dod Grile. Collected and Loosely Arranged By J. Milton Sloluck. Bierce (1842–?1914), whom Clemens had known in San Francisco in the mid 1860s, was in London on the staff of Fun and had seen Clemens there in 1872 and doubtless in 1873 as well. Given that in April 1874 Chatto and Windus were just publishing Clemens’s revised version of The Choice Humorous Works of Mark Twain (SLC 1874), an arrangement Bierce may have helped facilitate, they must have hoped Clemens would provide a quotable, if belated, “puff” for Nuggets and Dust. For a more favorable comment on Bierce’s work, see 1 Feb 75 to Stoddard (ET&S1, 602–3; BAL, 1:1096, 1099; AD, 13 June 1906, CU-MARK, in MTE, 262; L5, 156 n. 5, 157 n. 9).