To Francis E. Bliss
17 June 1879 • Paris, France
(MS: Sotheby’s, New York,
10 December 1993, UCCL 01671)

June 17.

My Dear Frank—

Please “process” that waiter with the bottle, & a few other of the pictures & send [proofs] for Brown to judge by. I suppose he wants to know what sort of a process it is, so he can draw to its best capacities. He brought some pictures last night which please me exceedingly.

Yrs

S. L. C.

[letter docketed:] S. L. Clemens | June 17.79

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Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, collection of Robert Daley, seen at Sotheby’s, New York, while awaiting sale in December 1993.

Previous publication: MTLP, 118.

Provenance:This letter from the Daley collection was offered for sale by Sotheby’s in December 1993 (Sotheby’s catalog, 10–11 December 1993, no. 6515, lot 214).

Emendations and textual notes:

proofs • [sic]