12 April 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile, postal card, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 01321)
(SUPERSEDED)
Statement rec’d.Ⓐemendation—but why did you not enclose the check? Just drop it in the mail.1explanatory note
Don’t delay estimate on electros. I You have misunderstood. I want no estimate on cut-down plates or pictures. I want— estimates on—
1. Full set, of full plates., full size.
2.
2. Only such of the cuts as will go into that English size without cutting. PleaseⒶemendation hurry it up.
docketed: ✓
us postal card. write the address on this side—the message on the other | American Publishing Co | 284 Asylum st. | City postmarked: hartford conn. apr 12Ⓐemendation 6 pm
Clemens answered the following letter (CU-MARK):
The statement, for the first quarter of 1876, showed that Clemens was due $131.57 on sales of 735 copies of The Innocents Abroad , $104.10 on 394 copies of Roughing It , $89.35 on 501 copies of The Gilded Age (the same amount went to co-author Charles Dudley Warner), and $871.94 on 3,724 copies of Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
The present location of the MS is not known; the photocopy in CU-MARK was provided in 1972 by St. Mary’s Seminary in Perryville, Missouri (MoPeS). The postcard was one of “eight items of autograph material” donated to MoPeS in 1944 by Estelle Doheny. It is not clear whether this “material” consisted of manuscripts or photocopies. By 1982 the MoPeS archive contained only photocopies.