Montowese House
Branford Conn, June 5.
Dear Charley—
Yes, you did right to sue the quack; the precedent is sound; repeat it every time.
The sending those plates &c to Europe at our expense was theft or embezzlement, wasn’t it?
Of course you did right to refuse to make spelter casts for [brass-work.
Have] read the [letter. Things] appear to be going well. That man is frightened, & he has good reason to be, I think. I want that firm to either restore my 10 per cent royalty on Scrap Books or do something which shall come nearer the equivalent of it than the present royalty does, which was obtained by lying assertions.
However, I do not wish to offer too many suggestions—these matters are in wise hands.
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
The Scrapbook gravels me because while they have been paying me about $1800 or $2000 a year, I judge it ought to have been 3 times as much.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MTBus, 159–60; Parke-Bernet Galleries catalog, 10 May 1955, no. 1598, lot 79, paraphrase.
Provenance:
Deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 17 December 1963.
Emendations and textual notes:
brass-work. [¶] Have • ~-~.— | [¶] ~
letter. Things • ~.— | ~
