To
Francis E. Bliss
12 April 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS facsimile, postal card, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 01321)
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
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
Clemens answered the following letter (CU-MARK): The
statement, for the first quarter of 1876, showed that Clemens was due $131.57 on sales of 735 copies of The Innocents Abroad (1869); $104.10 on 394 copies of Roughing It (1872); $89.35 on 501 copies of The
Gilded Age (1873-74, 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.
(1875) (Scrapbook 10:29, CU-MARK).
Source text(s):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:
‸, full size.‸ • [inserted after a new paragraph was begun and then canceled]
cutting. Please • ~.— | ~
apr 12 • apr [1]2 [badly inked]
