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

Cue: "This house ought"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: MBF

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
1885 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 03092)

This house ought to make the German & French translations.1explanatory note Unknown translators in France & Germany might sell advance-MS to pirates or periodicals, whereas Justin McCarthy could be depended upon to prevent that. Put his address in your note-book, Charley, so that you can recommend him to the Continental publishers, . Charley

S L C.

I know McCarthy.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 323–24.

Explanatory Notes
1 Clemens wrote the beginning of this letter in the bottom margin of a full-page print advertisement for the ABC Translations Bureau. The letter continues on the advertisement’s blank verso.
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