Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y ([NPV])

Cue: "If there are"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2022

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
5? January 1883 • (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02330)
james r. osgood & co. publishers boston.
Jany 3, 1883.
S. L. Clemens, Esq.
Dear Sir,

We are beginning to receive reports from canvassers, with applications for the premiums offered for the largest bona fide lists of subscribers. Kindly give us such instructions as you deem necessary for the method of awarding these premiums.

Yrs truly,
James R. Osgood & Co.

Charley, if there are any instructions to be given, you may give them—I will not interest myself in anything connected with this wretched God-damned book.

S L C

OVERⒶemendation

If you know of no other instructions, you can write them & tell them I say invent instructions of their own.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous Publication:

MTBus , 207.

Provenance:

see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  OVER ●  capitals simulated, not underscored
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