To
Francis E. Bliss
12 April 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS facsimile, postal card, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 01321)
(SUPERSEDED)
Hartford Apl. 12.
Statement [rec’d.]—but why did you not enclose the check? Just drop it in the mail.1
Don’t delay estimate on electros. I You have misunderstood. I want no estimate on cut-down plates or pictures. I want— estimates on—
1. Full set, of full plates.‸, full size.‸
2.
2. Only such of the cuts as will go into that English size without [cutting. Please] hurry it up.
Yrs
S L C
us postal card. write the address on this side—the message on the other
| American Publishing Co | 284 Asylum st. | City
[postmarked:]
hartford conn. [apr 12] 6 pm [docketed:]
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
The
statement, for the first quarter of 1876, showed that Clemens was due $131.57 on sales of 735 copies of The Innocents Abroad, $104.10 on 394 copies of Roughing It, $89.35 on 501 copies of The
Gilded Age (the same amount went to co-author Charles Dudley Warner), and
$871.94 on 3,724 copies of Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old.
Copy-text:Previous publication:MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:The present location of the MS is not known; the photocopy in CU-MARK was
provided in 1972 by St. Mary’s Seminary in Perryville, Missouri (MoPeS). The postcard was one of “eight items of autograph material” donated to MoPeS in 1944 by Estelle Doheny. It is not clear whether this “material”
consisted of manuscripts or photocopies. By 1982 the MoPeS archive contained
only photocopies.
Emendations and textual notes:
rec’d. • rec’d. [deletion implied]
cutting. Please • cutting.—|Please
apr 12 • apr [1]2 [badly inked]
