To Unidentified
1 September 1879 • SS Gallia, en route from
Liverpool, England, to New York, N.Y.
(MS, in pencil, of inscription in Mallock 1878:
Hyman, UCCL 12027)

[in an unidentified hand:] This is a book wit

‸Certainly it is.

Yrs Truly
S. L. Clemens
Mark Twain‸

the new republic , a book
[which treats of light] things seriously; of serious things, lightly; of all things wittily,—which destroys without remaking, suggests without satisfying, inquires without answering, stops without ending.

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Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, of inscription in Mallock 1878, collection of Dan Hyman.

Previous publication: MicroPUL, reel 1.

Emendations and textual notes:

which treats of light • [partly rubbed away]