To Charles L. Webster
19 September 1882 • 2nd of 2 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02272)

Sept. 19/82

Dear Charley—

I want Messrs. Alaexander & Green to go for these people at once & lively, on some charge or other. They are using my name to sell stuff which I never wrote. I would not be the author of that witless stuff ‸(Bad Boy’s Diary)‸ for a million dollars.

I want them [salted] well for saying I am author of Bad Boy’s Diary, too.

Get & send me this “Ha-ha-ha.”

Ys Truly

S L Clemens

Go for ’em lively & at once.

Textual Commentary

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Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous publication:

MTBus, 197; MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

salted • salted salted [corrected miswriting]