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

Cue: "I have reshipped"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
11 June 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02993)

[canceled with crisscrossing lines:]

Der Himmel sieht wie nach  eine Donnerwetter einem Gewitter aus


Wie Kämen wir nach Hause, wenn es geshähe.


Dear Charley—

I have reshipped the pictures to you. I knew Kemble had it in him, if he would only modify hims his violences & come down to careful, painstakingemendation work. This batch of pictures is most rattling good. They please me exceedingly.

But you must knock out one of them—the lecherous old rascal kissing the girl at the campmeeting. It is powerful good, but it mustn’t go in—don’t forget it. No doub Let’s not make any pictures of the campmeeting. The subject won’t bear illustrating. It is a disgusting thing, & pictures are sure to tell the truth about it too plainly.

Spread your general agencies all around—this book will have a big sale.

Yrs
S L C
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 260.

Provenance:

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

Emendations and Textual Notes
 painstaking ● pains- | taking
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