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Add to My CitationsTo Moncure D. Conway
21 December 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: NNC, UCCL 01515)
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Hartford, Dec. 21.

em spaceslcem spaceDear 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

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1The letter from George Routledge and Sons, Clemens’s former English publishers, is not known to survive.

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2In 1876 Conway had acted as Clemens’s agent in contracting with Chatto and Windus for the publication in England of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Clemens had agreed to pay him a commission of 5 per cent of the profits on that edition (9 Apr 1876 to Conway).

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3

The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton” (see 10 Dec 1877 to Chatto, n. 3). Conway replied (CU-MARK):

UCLC 32623

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).

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4No such letter to the Routledges has been found.



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MS, correspondence card, Conway Papers, NNC.

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MicroPUL, reel 1.

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The Conway Papers were acquired by NNC sometime after Conway’s death in 1907.

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