To Charles Warren Stoddard
10 September 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 11958)

Hartford Sept 10.

slcDear Charley: The subscription houses are doing nothing—they say they can’t sell books of travel or any other kind, except old standard things like Commentaries on the Bible—& only enough of them to keep alive. If you will run up here & see me I’ll fill you up with good advice & Scotch whisky, [MS page 2] but I can’t promise you a publisher, in such times as these. We will go & see as many as you please, though.1

I shall be exceedingly grateful for that Tichborne book, I assure you. It will be better than a scrap-book.2

If you see John McComb, send him up here,—or bring him.3

I’ve just got home from vacation, & this is No. 1 of a ton of letters to be answered.

Yrs Ever

Mark.