To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
1 March 1875 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01200)

Mch 1.

Friend Bliss:

I’ve put off the Miss. River trip till June, & shall write a new book meantime.1

Raymond is stirring up a new sort of comment upon the novel. I received several private commendations from different States lately. Enclosed is the latest.2

Ys

Mark.

[letter docketed:]

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1 See 20 Feb 75 to Howells, n. 3.

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2 Raymond was on tour with the Gilded Age play. No enclosure survives with this letter. One of the “private commendations” survives separately, but there is no evidence that Clemens sent it to Bliss (see 1 Mar 75 to Gibbon, n. 1).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

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

Previous publication: L6, 395–396.

Provenance:see Mendoza Collection in Description of Provenance.