To
Charles Scribner and Company
25 June 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 11850)
25 June 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 11850)
Elmira, N. Y. June 25
saturday
Dr Sirs:
Please send me Dr. Bushnell’s volume entitled “Christian Nurture,”1explanatory note to above address, & charge to
YrsⒶemendation Truly
S. L. Clemens
Explanatory Notes
1
A book on child rearing and family life by Horace Bushnell (1802–76), the eminent Hartford Congregational clergyman. The Clemenses wanted it because Olivia was now about three months pregnant. It is likely that Clemens wrote to Scribner and Company, at 654 Broadway in New York, who had issued several printings of it since 1861 (Wilson 1870, 1092).
Emendations and Textual Notes
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Yrs ●
‘rs’ conflated
MS facsimile, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK). The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 1992 by Mrs. T. V. Hedgpeth, who sent a photocopy to CU-MARK.
L4 , 158–159.