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Add to My Citations To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
10 July 1873 • London, England
(MS: Freedman, UCCL 10976)
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London, July 10.

Friend Bliss—

Publish if you want to, or leave it alone, just as seems best. I am tired of the Shah & shall not write any more.1

Ys

Clemens

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1 Bliss had evidently written to Clemens soon after receiving his letter of 18 June, perhaps even before the first shah letter appeared in the New York Herald on 1 July. Bliss may have wanted to know how many shah letters Clemens planned to write.



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MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 1984 by Russell Freedman of Second Life Books (Lanesborough, Mass.), who provided a photocopy to the Mark Twain Papers.

glyphglyphPrevious publication:glyph L5, 413–800.

glyphglyphProvenance:glyphWhen offered for sale in 1984 the MS was laid in a volume of the Autograph Edition of The Writings of Mark Twain, almost certainly The Innocents Abroad (American Publishing Company, 1899–1907).