25 August 1868 • (Two independent typed transcripts prepared for Albert Bigelow Paine: CU-MARK, UCCL 12727)
I am here, enjoying myself royally. Haven’t any desire to shorten my visit. I am getting acquainted with everybody. Shall be here nearly two weeks yet. My address will be as printed on this envelope.
Staid a day & a half at Beach’s country place. Looked also at his pictures at his Brooklyn residence. He has such a multitude of them that I could not look at all. Therefore, we arranged thatⒶemendation your artists should go there to his house (No. 66 Columbia streetⒶemendation (Brooklyn) and select for themselves. Mr. Beach can always be heard from through his brother Alfred, in the Scientific American Office 3d Ⓐemendation story World buildingⒶemendation.
KindⒶemendationregardsⒶemendation to all. Write me. Everything is jolly,—Ⓐemendation
All variants between the source texts are reported here. Readings identified by the siglum ‘MTP’ are editorial emendations that draw from or fully replace the source readings when none of those is deemed an accurate representation of the original manuscript.
None. The text is based on two typed transcripts prepared for Albert Bigelow Paine, each of which is likely to derive independently from the original letter, which has not been found. Tr1 was clearly made and corrected from the MS because it contains a holograph correction in Paine’s hand. Tr2 seems to be a fair copy (with carbon copy) of Tr1, but like other duplicate copies of Paine typescripts, it too was probably made with access to the original. The variants between them do not demonstrate their independence, but that independence is here assumed on the basis of dozens of other duplicate typescripts prepared for Paine which are in fact independent, or partly independent, copies of the original.
None known.
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