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Source: Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, Conn ([CtY])

Cue: "Bliss please print"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2000-05-25T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 2000-05-25 was 1875.07.21 before

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v6

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To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
16? July 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtY-BR UCCL 01252)

Bliss please print this title-page & mail to me for transmission to Washington.1explanatory note

S.L.C.

Mark Twain’s Sketches.

{New & Old.}

Now First Published in a

Complete Form

in this country.emendation

{Sold only by Supbscription.}

Hartford:

The American Publishing Co.

1875.

new page:

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by Samuel L. Clemens, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Textual Commentary
16? July 1875 • To Elisha Bliss, Jr.Hartford, Conn.UCCL  01252
Source text(s):

MS, Willard S. Morse Collection, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR).

Previous Publication:

L6 , 513.

Provenance:

The Morse Collection was donated in 1942 by Walter F. Frear.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

The date assigned conjecturally to this letter allows sufficient time for the printing of the requested title page and for its transmission to Clemens and then to Washington, where Copyright No. 7619 was issued on 21 July 1875 (information courtesy of the Copyright Office, Library of Congress).

Emendations and Textual Notes
  in this country. ●  canceled in pencil, presumably by someone other than SLC after receipt
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