10 October 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02850)
Proof received. That is the idea. “K’d” is a very good abbreviation. So is “Bat.” KeepⒶemendation that up. Use any intelligible abbreviation.
Now go & on & put the whole thing in type; and mind, don’t send me first-proof; & don’t send me first revise, either. Send me s the second-revise, after two first-proof & revise have been carefully read & carefully corrected. Save me what profanity you can. Orion’s MS is infernal.
When you send me said second-revise, send me the manuscript to compare it with.
Make a new board, Charley, with all improvements to date, & send it to me. There’s one which I think I mentioned, but am not sure:
That is, make the game only 400 years—and
Run the colored stripes across the top of the board, under below the title of the game:
T i t l e ⟦England⟧
canceled rectangular box, enclosing a row of dots and possibly words; all of the rows of dots below are enclosed in rectangular boxes
Accession. Length of reign. one or two words canceled End of reign.
10 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
Battles & Sieges.
8 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
Conspicuous matters.
5 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
Any Birth or Death.
3 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
MS, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
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