To
Elisha Bliss, Jr.
10 July 1873 • London, England (MS: Freedman, UCCL 10976)
10 July 1873 • London, England (MS: Freedman, UCCL 10976)
London, July 10.
Friend Bliss—
Publish if you want to, or leave it alone, just as seems best. I am tired of the Shah & shall not write any more.1explanatory note
Ys
Clemens
Explanatory Notes
1
Bliss had evidently written to Clemens soon after receiving his letter of 18 June, perhaps even before the first shah letter appeared in the New York Herald on 1 July. Bliss may have wanted to know how many shah letters Clemens planned to write.
MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 1984 by Russell Freedman of Second Life Books (Lanesborough, Mass.), who provided a photocopy to the Mark Twain Papers.
L5 , 413–800.
When offered for sale in 1984 the MS was laid in a volume of the Autograph Edition of The Writings of Mark Twain, almost certainly The Innocents Abroad (American Publishing Company, 1899–1907).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.