1 Blamire was the New York agent for Clemens’s London publishers, George Routledge and Sons; his office was at 416 Broome Street. The firm had maintained a New York City office since 1854 (Welland, 15).

2 Unidentified.

3 Clemens, writing on Friday, had marked a copy of the first American edition of The Innocents Abroad to serve as printer’s copy for the Routledges’ authorized edition. Collation reveals that he made over four hundred revisions—removing slang, toning down the humor, and making his narrator less ignorant and bumptious. These changes were in part a response to English reviews of the book—in particular, one in the London Saturday Review, which (for example) declared, “Mr. Mark Twain here verges on buffoonery” (30 {8 Oct 70}: 467–68; see also the London Athenaeum, 24 Sept 70, 395–96; both reviews are reprinted in Anderson and Sanderson, 36–43; see Hirst, 365–77; L4, 267, 268 n. 4, 283; Arthur L. Scott). The Routledges, who had made quick work of the two sketchbooks in the spring, were able by 24 August to announce their “Author’s English Edition” of Innocents (ET&S1, 591; 31 Mar 72 to Osgood, n. 4; SLC 1869, 1872 [MT01068], 1872 [MT01061]).

4 Daniel Slote’s blank-book and stationery manufacturing firm—Slote, Woodman and Company—was located at 119 and 121 William Street; his home address was 28 West Forty-ninth Street (H. Wilson 1872, 1122).

5 Blamire’s prompting letter is not known to survive. For Clemens’s prefaces to the English edition of The Innocents Abroad, see the next letter, and 16 or 17 July 72, and 21 July 72, all to Blamire.