To
Edward Hastings
17 February 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(Paraphrase: Edward Hastings to SLC, 25 April 1876,
CU-MARK, UCCL 12943)
(SUPERSEDED)
You were right when you wrote that no American author would say “no” to my requests on behalf of my comrades, who will have a respectable, if not a large, collection of books very soon.1
Explanatory Notes
“Answered,” Clemens wrote on Hastings’s envelope. The answer is not known to
survive. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was not published until December 1876, so Hastings presumably had been alerted to it by Howells’s early review in the Atlantic Monthly for May 1876, available by mid-April (Howells 1876, 621–22).
Copy-text:Provenance:See Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
