3 March 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: ViU, UCCL 02932)
Here’s another of those fellows. I’ve told him you have full authority & will answer him. Please do.
I’m keeping Huck Finn back till next fall. I found I couldn’t publish it in the spring, there wasn’t time enough left for a long enough canvass.
My friend and publisher Mr. Hennuyer is about to print my translation of Tom Sawyer, which is now in the hands of the illustrator, Achille Sirouy, a talented and well known artist. Mr. Hennuyer wishes to obtain your sanction for this translation, as well [as] for the forthcoming sequel, Huck Finn.
Tom Sawyer will be published in the same style as my adaptation of Helen’s Babies of which I have the pleasure of offering you a copy, forwarded by this post.
48 rue La Condamine
MS, ViU, is source text for the letter. The enclosed letter was apparently William L. Hughes to SLC, 14 February 1884 (UCLC 41782), also at ViU.
MicroPUL, reel 2; AAA auction catalog, 18 November 1925, lot 140, partial transcript and paraphrase.