To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
25 February 1873 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 00875)

Home, 25th

Friend Bliss—

[ Str Stir] Frank up—he is getting 3 or 4 weeks behindhand with his statement.1

Man in New York wants permission to print a hundred copies or so of the Jumping Frog, “merely for distribution among friends.” He don’t say how many he wants to print for sale, though!2

Ys

Clemens

[letter docketed:] [and] S. L. Clemens | Hartford. Feb. 25. 1873.

Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary

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1 Frank Bliss often sent Clemens the American Publishing Company’s quarterly royalty statements.

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2 Clemens was the sole owner of the rights to his first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches (SLC 1867), having purchased the copyright from its publisher, Charles H. Webb, in December 1870 (L4, 269, 274, 281). The person seeking permission to reprint it has not been identified.

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Willard S. Morse Collection, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR).

Previous publication: L5, 300–301.

Provenance:The MS is laid in a first edition copy of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (C. H. Webb, 1867); the Morse Collection was donated to CtY in 1942 by Walter F. Frear.

Emendations and textual notes:

Str Stir • Strir