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

Cue: "I've put off"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v6

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To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
1 March 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01200)
Mch 1.
Friend Bliss:

I’ve put off the Miss. River trip till June, & shall write a new book meantime.1explanatory note

Raymond is stirring up a new sort of comment upon the novel. I received several private commendations from different States lately. Enclosed is the latest.2explanatory note

Ys
Mark.

letter docketed: ✓

Textual Commentary
1 March 1875 • To Elisha Bliss, Jr. • Hartford, Conn. • UCCL 01200
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

L6 , 395–396.

Provenance:

see Mendoza Collection in Description of Provenance.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

See 20 Feb 75 to Howells, n. 3click to open link.

2 

Raymond was on tour with the Gilded Age play. No enclosure survives with this letter. One of the “private commendations” survives separately, but there is no evidence that Clemens sent it to Bliss (see 1 Mar 75 to Gibbon, n. 1click to open link).

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