To
Charles Henry Webb
10 January 1868 • Washington, D.C.
(Transcripts: AAA 1927, lot 109; Parke-Bernet Galleries 1940,
lot 188, UCCL 00178)
. . . .
[Please send me 3 ]copies of [the Jumping ]Frog—I never got but 6 of the lot you gave [me ]an order [for]. [I lost the order. Send them (the 3) through the mail. ]It is 2 [A.M.]—I will to bed.1
[Yr. Friend
Saml. Clemens.]
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
Source text(s):| P1 | AAA 1927, lot 109 |
| P2 | Parke-Bernet Galleries 1940, lot 188 |
Previous publication:
L2, 153; none known except P1 and P2.
Provenance:The MS was once owned by Henry Goldsmith, New York (before 1927), and then by
John Gribbel, Philadelphia (before 1940). Its present location is
unknown.
Emendations, adopted readings, and textual notes:
No copy-text. The text is based on two auction-catalog transcriptions that derive independently from the lost MS:
Although P2 is more complete than P1, both lack (at least) a salutation. Like many catalogs, P1 and P2 use italic type for text quoted from manuscript, a convention not followed here.
Adopted readings without sigla are editorial emendations of the source readings.
Jan. 9 • Jan 9 [1903] (P1); January 9 [1867] (P2)
Please . . . 3 (P2) • Asks Webb to send him three (P1)
the Jumping (P2) • dee Jumping (P1)
me (P1) • [not in] (P2)
for (P2) • [followed in P1 by three ellipsis points, which stand for the dropped words described in the next entry]
I . . . mail. (P2) • [not in] (P1)
A.M. (P1) • am (P2)
Yr. . . . Clemens. (P2) • [not in] (P1)
