26 March 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: NPV, UCCL 00449)
The coffin of “Enterprise” files has come—$ expressage $9.50.1explanatory note Nothing unright about that, but I had had a sort of a general idea that it would come w Ⓐemendation as slow freight along with Annie’s pianaⒶemendation. However, it would not a have been as safe.
Livy got Annie’s letter yesterday, & both of us were pleased with it.—I, chiefly with the just remarks made about Livy’s comeliness & other attractions. I thought it showed a profound judgment & a mature appreciation, & thus was remarkable coming from one so young. {I will endeavor not to let Livy meddle with that sentence.}
I am going to edit a ten-page department in the “Galaxy” Magazine. The berth is exceedingly easy & the salary liberal. I am to own rent the matter to them, not sell it—& so I can use it in book form afterward without divi sharing the proceeds with them.
But I am in a hurry—so I will say good-bye & love to all––
For an account of these “files” of western clippings, see RI 1993 , 801–4.
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Vassar College Library (NPV).
L4 , 97–98; MTBus , 112.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.