To Robert U. Johnson
18 March 1885 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 03191)
18 March 1885 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 03191)
Hartford, Mch 18∕85.
Dear Mr. Johnson—
I’ll have to wait till August before I can say. By that time I shall have been at our farm a month & will know whether I am going to write the book which I have begun in my mind or not. I would like mighty well to be in the Century war series, & I shall be in it if I find it will not get in the way of my book. The fact is, the War Series is the greatest thing of these modern times, & nobody who is anybody can well afford to be unrepresented in it.
Yours Sincerely
S L
Clemens
MS, CtHMTH.
“Three Mark Twain Letters,” The Mark Twain Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, summer–fall 1945, p. 24.