To James R. Osgood
7–14 March 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil, on proof page 356 of Life on the Mississippi: NN, UCCL 08820)
7–14 March 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil, on proof page 356 of Life on the Mississippi: NN, UCCL 08820)
written below the illustration of a corpse in a shroud, canceled with crisscrossing lines:
Dear Osgood—Knock this picture out. The madam’s orders are peremptory. She says the chapter is plenty dreadful enough without it.
Yrs
Mark
MS, in pencil, on proof page 356 of SLC 1883, NN.
Ticknor 1922, 138, facsimile.