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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "This is to"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

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To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
7 November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00527)

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Buf. Nov. 7. 1870.
Friend Bliss:

This is to acknowledge recpt of your draft for 8 $835 & odd cents, for which I thank you. Statement all O. K.1explanatory note

Born to us this day, a boy. Mother & child doing only tolerably well but we hope for the best. Tell the Twichells.

Yrs in haste
Clemens.

letter docketed: ✓ and in ink: Mark Twain | Nov 7/70 | Author

Textual Commentary
7 November 1870 • To Elisha Bliss, Jr. • Buffalo, N.Y. • UCCL 00527
Source text(s):

MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous Publication:

L4 , 226–227.

Provenance:

see Mendoza Collection in Description of Provenance.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
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The check and statement were for fifth quarter (1 Aug–31 Oct 70) sales of The Innocents Abroad, amounting to about 5,000 copies (Hirst 1975, 317). Since the corresponding royalty would have been about $1,000, Bliss may have made some deductions, including the cost of books Clemens had recently requested (21? Sept 70click to open link, 28 Oct 70click to open link, and 29 Oct 70click to open link, all to Bliss).

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