To
Orion Clemens
9 March 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: PBL, UCCL 00584)
9 March 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: PBL, UCCL 00584)
Buf. 9th,
Dear Bro:
Tell Bliss “all right”—I will try to give him a chapter from the new book every month or nearly every month, for the Publisher. I have g
I have got several chapters (168 pages MS.) revised & ready for printers & artists, but for the sake of security Ⓐemendationshall get somebody to copy it & then send the original to him.1explanatory note Thank him for promising to take care of our furniture.
Yrs Ⓐemendation
Sam.
Explanatory Notes
1
One hundred sixty-eight pages would have taken Clemens through “the conjectured end of chapter 8, the pony-express incident” ( RI 1993 , 835, 838–40).
MS, Robert B. Honeyman Collection, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. (PBL).
L4 , 346.
deposited at PBL in March 1957.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.