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Source: Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn ([CtY-BR])

Cue: "Wm A. Seaver"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

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To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
21 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 01788)
Friend Bliss—

Wm A. Seaver is now & has been for many generations, editor of Harper’s Drawer. Send him a cloth book—write on the fly-leaf remainder in pencil: paste this card on the fly leaf—& charge to—well, it is in effect a press copy, as he is an editor. Do as conscience shall dictate.

Yrs
S L C

My charming old Ruffian:–

I’m going to Yurup in two or three weeks, and unless you send me your Tramp, which purports to be inaccessible to anyone but subscribers, I shall positively be without any intellectual hash, cod, or anything else lovely and nourishing. It would be a great and good thing if I could steal a few sweet jokes from it for the Drawer.

Ain’t you coming down here within a couple of weeks? I would cherfully spend the price of a tramp in salooning you at the Union or Lotos,—and never shed a tear.

Essentially Yours,
Wm. A. Seaver.
letter docketed:

S. L. Clemens | Apr 20, 80

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, Willard S. Morse Collection, Collection of American Literature, CtY-BR.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

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

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

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