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The Jumping Frog was a small volume, my first publication, &Ⓐemendation the chief part of its contents was not worth the printing. Therefore I have broken up the plates & taken that book out of the market. However, a few years ago I took such of the contents as might be worth preserving, including the title sketch, & after adding a lot of new matter, issued the result in a new volume entitled Mark Twain’s Sketches . .

. . I should like to become a permanent subscriber to the Fliegende Blütter; & I would also like to buy ten or twelve of the back numbers—I mean ten or twelve of the last years’ volumes, which contain twenty-six numbers each. I should prefer them bound. Won’t you please instruct the Leipzig agent to fill this order for me & send me his bill? I judge by the advertisements that there is an agent in all of the large cities.

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