To the American Publishing Company
12 May 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, postal card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01429)

May 12

Please send Cloth “Sketches” & “Sawyer” to Hon. J. R. Goodpasture, Nashville, Tenn.,1 & charge to

S L Clemens

Also, send me statement &c on Tom Sawyer to April 1.2

us postal card.
write the address on this side—the message on the other

American Publishing Co

284 Asylum St.

City

[postmarked:] hartford conn. may 12 6pm

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1John Ridley Goodpasture (1854–1927) was an 1875 graduate of East Tennessee University and since 1876 a member of the Tennessee state legislature. In 1877 and 1878 he practiced law in Clarksville, Tennessee, and after that for many years was a Presbyterian minister (Goodpasture and Goodpasture 1897, 256, 281–82). His connection with Clemens has not been discovered.

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2The American Publishing Company’s statement of books sold as of 1 April does not include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In a statement dated 9 March, however, Frank Bliss reported that 15,037 copies had been sold “from the beginning to March 1st 1877,” generating a royalty of $4,327.92. Between 1 March and 1 June another 6,094 copies were sold, for a royalty of $1,722.65 (Scrapbook 10:80–82, CU-MARK).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, postal card, in pencil, Cyril Clemens Collection, CtHMTH.

Previous publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Donated in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.