MTPDocEd
slc farmington avenue, hartford.
Ⓐ
July 19, 1875.
Ⓐ
paraphrase:
The dated note . . . is addressed to
“Dear Madam”, thanking her for a Ⓐ
ticket, which he unfortunately will not be able to
use.Ⓐ
I send copies of my books for the Library Ⓐ
& hope your enterprise will meet with a generous
success.Ⓐ
1
. . . .
Explanatory Notes
1
The addressee’s name is provided by the 1 January 1876
statement of Clemens’s account with the American Publishing
Company, which indicates that on 20 July 1875 a “Set of
books” bound in cloth was ordered for Foster (not further
identified), at a cost of $3.60 plus $1.00 for
“Express on same” (APC 1876). Included were The
Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, and The Gilded
Age.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
slc
farmington avenue, hartford.
(#C) ●
Farmington Avenue, Hartford (#P3)
on embossed paper (#P1)
Hartford (#P2)
all reported, not
quoted; Clemens’s printed letterhead adopted, together with
the more likely of two possible monograms
Ⓐ
July 19, 1875. (#C) ●
19 July, 1875. (#P1)
19 July 1875 (#P2, #P3)
all reported, not
quoted; emended to SLC’s usual order
Ⓐ
The dated . . . for a
(#P1) ●
Mark Twain thanks “Dear Madam” for a (#P2)
to an unknown correspondent, thanking her for a (#P3)
Ⓐ
ticket, . . . use.
(#P2) ●
ticket
reported, not quoted
(#P1, #P3)
Ⓐ
I send . . . Library (#P1) ●
and sending copies of “. . . my books for the
Library” (#P2)
not in
(#P3)
Ⓐ
& hope . . . success. (#P1) ●
he hopes the enterprise will be very successful. (#P2)
and wishing her luck in a future enterprise. (#P3)
Ⓐ
S. L. Clemens (#P1) ●
not in
(#P2, #P3)
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No copy-text. The text is based on three transcripts and paraphrases, each of which derives independently from the MS:
Each catalog contains quoted or paraphrased text, or descriptive information, not present in the others. None of the texts is complete, however. P2 describes the letter as “1½ pp., 8vo,” and P3 describes it as “2 pp. 12mo,” whereas the surviving text would certainly have fit on a single page.
L6 , 514.
Adopted readings followed by ‘(C)’ are editorial emendations of the source readings.