To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
9 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: Karanovich, UCCL 11969)

Mch 9, 1874.

Friend Bliss—

Damnation! Please send a cloth “Roughing It” to B. P. Shillaber, Chelsea, Mass. I wish people would ask for all the books at once, & save me a trifle of note-writing.1

Yrs

Mark.

[letter docketed:] [and] Twain [and] M. Twain | March 9 1874

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1 The letter from humorist Benjamin P. Shillaber requesting a copy of Roughing It does not survive (see L4, 142–43 n. 1).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 2001 by Nick Karanovich, who provided a photocopy to the Mark Twain Papers.

Previous publication: L6, 64; Christie 1997, lot 15.