Hartford, Dec. 21.
slc
Dear Conway—I’ve a letter from Routledge wanting the Old Times on Mississippi & my
Bermuda articles for a [book.]
‸on a royalty.‸1
Now my impression is, that my English matters are in your hands, on the same per centage paid you for attending to Tom Sawyer.2 It is also my impression that you are about to open negotiations with Chatto, & doubtless with Routledge too, for this very book (with the addition of a nice unique short story which I shall send to Chatto for his magazine about a week hence.)3 Please tell me at once if I my impressions are correct, so I can answer Routledge.4
Yrs
S L Clemens
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
“The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton” (see 10 Dec 1877 to Chatto, n. 3). Conway replied (CU-MARK):
Chatto and Windus issued An Idle Excursion and Other Papers in 1878. In addition to “Some Rambling Notes” and the Alonzo and Rosannah story, its contents were: “Old Times on the Mississippi,” “A Literary Nightmare,” “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut,” “The Canvasser’s Tale,” and Clemens’s 1876 speech on the weather to the New England Society (20 Dec 1876 to Perkins, n. 1).



Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:
The Conway Papers were acquired by NNC sometime after Conway’s death in 1907.
Emendations and textual notes:
book. • [deletion implied]