To
Elisha Bliss, Jr.
9 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Karanovich, UCCL 11969)
9 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Karanovich, UCCL 11969)
Mch 9, 1874.
Friend Bliss—
Damnation! Please send a cloth “Roughing It” to B. P. Shillaber, Chelsea, Mass. I wish people would ask for all the books at once, & save me a trifle of note-writing.1explanatory note
Yrs
Mark.
letter docketed: ✓ and Twain and M. Twain | March 9 1874
Explanatory Notes
1
The letter from humorist Benjamin P. Shillaber requesting a copy of Roughing It does not survive (see L4 , 142–43 n. 1).
MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 2001 by Nick Karanovich, who provided a photocopy to the Mark Twain Papers.
L6 , 64; Christie 1997, lot 15.