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Source: The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011 ([CLjC])

Cue: "Charley, your proofreader"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2005-03-03T00:00:00

Revision History: Larson, Brian | BL 2005-03-03 was ODaU; was 1883.10.17 to 1883.10.29

Published on MTPO: 2023

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
30? October 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: CLjC, UCCL 11181)

beginning of letter missing

Charley, your proof-readerⒶemendation is an idiot; & not only an idiot, but blind; & not only blind, but partly dead.

Some of the spacing—most of it, in fact—is absolutely disgraceful; but this goddamned ass never sees it. By God he can’t see anything; he is blind & dead & rotten, & ought to be thrown into the sewer.

S L C

OVERⒶemendation

That compositor Hoefer, is not a compositor at all, he is a 3-weeks apprentice.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, CLjC.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ proof-reader ● proof- | reader
Ⓐ OVER ● capitals simulated, not underscored
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