Elmira, N. Y. July 4.
My Dear Conway:
I fear that the book & the newspaper notice have miscarried. They have not arrived at Hartford or here.1
Has Bliss shipped the pictures to you yet? I can’t find out from him.2
Extracts from Sawyer keep appearing in [N. Y.] Evening Post—don’t know where they get them.3
My American copyright is perfect.4
No, I don’t think we shall want to use a cheap edition over here, at all. Our money lies wholly in the high-priced edition.
Yrs in haste (for dinner)
S. L. Clemens
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
On 6 May Conway promised to send Clemens the “earliest” copy
of the English edition of Tom Sawyer (see 27 May 1876 to Conway, n. 1). Soon after, in a letter that is now lost, Conway must have notified Clemens that a copy had been mailed, along with a
first review (Merle Johnson 1935, 29). 
The New York Evening Post of 28 June reprinted the fence-painting episode from chapter 2 of the English edition of Tom Sawyer, introducing it as “From Mark Twain’s unpublished book” (“How Tom Sawyer Got His Fence White-washed,” 1). No other extracts have been identified
in the Evening Post. For the paper’s source, see 24 July 1876 to Conway, n. 1.
See 16 Apr 1876 to Conway, n. 2.
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:
The Conway Papers were acquired by NNC sometime after Conway’s death in 1907.
Emendations and textual notes:
N. Y. • N | N. Y. [corrected miswriting]
