Printed transcript in an advertising circular for the Remington typewriter, produced in 1875 by “Densmore, Yost & Co., General Agents, 707 Broadway, New York,” Willard S. Morse Collection, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR). The addressee of this letter is conjectural. When the Remington Company printed it in an advertisement in the 18 March 1905 issue of Harper’s Weekly (inside the front cover), the words “E. Remington & Sons” were included below the dateline—presumably added by an editor. The reprinting of the Harper’s text in the Atlanta Constitution for 3 April 1905 read “E Remington & Sons, Ilion, N. Y.”—presumably a further editorial addition (see SLC 1905). Since most of the other letters in the advertising circular were addressed to “Densmore, Yost & Co.,” it is assumed that Clemens’s letter was also addressed to the company. Clemens apparently typed the original, and then signed it, despite his claim that he had “stopped using” the typewriter: the Harper’s article begins, “Some days ago a correspondent sent in an old typewritten sheet, faded by age, containing the following letter over the signature of Mark Twain.” The copy-text has therefore been emended to all capital letters, except for the signature, since the Remington typewriter that Clemens owned had no lowercase letters. All proper names, words beginning sentences, and the word “I” were capitalized in the copy-text; all ambiguous readings are listed below as emendations.