To Charles Erskine Scott Wood
3 April 1882 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, typewritten, with holograph changes: ViU, UCCL 02196)
hartford conn. april 3d. 1882.
my dear mr. wood:—
i inclose the original of [1603] as you suggest. i am afraid there are errors in [it,] also; errors of heedlessness in antiquated spelling—e’s stuck on often at the end of words where they are not strictly [necessary.[‸; etc.‸]
i] would go through the manuscript but i am [too] much driven just now, and it is not important anyway. i wish you would do me the kindness to make any and all corrections that suggest themselves to you.
sincerely yours,
s. l. clemens.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Previous publication:
AAA-Anderson Galleries, 4-5 April 1934, no. 4098, lot 117; MicroPUL, reel 2.
Provenance:
Offered for sale by AAA-Anderson Galleries in 1934; deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 16 April 1960.
Emendations and textual notes:
1603 • [sic]
it, • [‘it’ underlined, and comma inserted, by hand]
necessary.‸; etc.‸ • [cancellation and insertion handwritten]
‸; etc.‸ [¶] i • [space added to indicate new unindented paragraph; no extra space between paragraphs in MS, here and hereafter]
too • [insertion handwritten]
