To the American Publishing Company
12 May 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, postal card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01429)
12 May 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, postal card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01429)
May 12
Please send Cloth “Sketches” & “Sawyer” to Hon. J. R. Goodpasture, Nashville, Tenn.,1explanatory note & charge to
S L Clemens
Also, send me statement &c on Tom Sawyer to April 1.2explanatory note
us postal card. | write the address on this side—the message on the other American Publishing Co 284 Asylum St. City postmarked: hartford conn. may 12 6pm
Explanatory Notes
1 John Ridley Goodpasture (1854–1927) was an 1875 graduate of East Tennessee University
and since 1876 a member of the Tennessee state legislature. In 1877 and 1878 he practiced
law in Clarksville, Tennessee, and after that for many years was a Presbyterian minister
(Goodpasture and Goodpasture 1897, 256, 281–82). His connection with Clemens has not been discovered.
2 The American Publishing Company’s statement of books sold as of 1 April does not include
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In a statement dated 9 March, however, Frank Bliss reported that 15,037 copies had
been sold “from the beginning to March 1st 1877,” generating a royalty of $4,327.92.
Between 1 March and 1 June another 6,094 copies were sold, for a royalty of $1,722.65
(Scrapbook 10:80–82, CU-MARK).
MS, postal card, in pencil, Cyril Clemens Collection, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Donated in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.