Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Collection of Dan Hyman ([CPlh2])

Cue: "Certainly it is. Yrs Truly S.L.Clemens Mark Twain"

Source format: "MS facsimile, inscription"

Letter type: "inscription"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Unidentified
1 September 1879 • SS Gallia, en route from Liverpool, England, to New York, N.Y. (MS, in pencil, of inscription in Mallock 1878:
Hyman, UCCL 12027)

in an unidentified hand: This is a book wit


Certainly it is.

Yrs Truly
                               S. L. Clemens
                            Mark Twain

“Gallia,”
Sept. 1/79.

the new republic , a book
which treats of lightⒶemendation things seriously; of serious things, lightly; of all things wittily,—which destroys without remaking, suggests without satisfying, inquires without answering, stops without ending.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, of inscription in Mallock 1878, collection of Dan Hyman.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  which treats of light ●  partly rubbed away
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