To
Moncure D. Conway
per Fanny C. Hesse
8 November 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(Typed transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 01503)
November 8th, 1877
slcfarmington avenue, hartford.
My dear Conway,
In a letter of yours a year old, I have accidentally run across this sentence appended to a remark about the First edition of Tom Sawyer. “The telegrams sent you by me are not included of course, & I am sorry to say my books are confused about these said telegrams. As well as I can make out they amount to £2.11.0 which with 16s paid for carriage of picture plates and telegrams to Chatto in emergencies would amount to about £3.10.s. But this is subject to your [reccollection] of the telegrams I sent you & need not be considered of importance.” When I came across that sentence, it struck me as likely as not I had forgotten to write you anything in answer to it.1 So I thought I would drop you a line now & say that if this matter never has been settled, I wish you would take that £3.11.s out of the next Sawyer money due me from Chatto. Of course I ought to have written you at the time & said this—possibly also I did do it, but to make things perfectly certain I do it now. All well here, & send kindest regards.
Yours ever
Saml. L. Clemens.
Pr F. C.
H.
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:
The typed transcript indicates that the MS was at one time in the Justin Turner Collection. The MS was part of the George C. Smith, Jr., collection, offered for sale by Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1938.
Emendations and textual notes:
reccollection • [sic]
