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4 April 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Karanovich, UCCL 09203)
(SUPERSEDED)
4 April 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Karanovich, UCCL 09203)
(SUPERSEDED)
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Hartford, Apl. 4.
Dear Sir:
I am sorry, but I do not know the date of Webb’s birth, nor can I at this moment call to mind any friend of his who would be likely to know.1explanatory note
Resp’ly Yrs
Samℓ. L. Clemens
Explanatory Notes
1
Charles Henry Webb, humorist and publisher of Clemens’s first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches ( SLC 1867), was born 24 January 1834. Clemens long harbored bad feelings toward Webb over his management of the book (see L6 , 443 n. 1).
References
- Collection of Nick Karanovich
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches. Edited by John Paul. New York: C. H. Webb. 1867
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
MicroPUL, reel 1.