To
Elisha Bliss,
Jr., or Francis E. Bliss
per Telegraph Operator
31 January 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS, copy received: CU-MARK, UCCL 00571)
per Telegraph Operator
31 January 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS, copy received: CU-MARK, UCCL 00571)
the western union telegraph company. Ⓐemendation
1257
Ⓐemendation
dated
Buffalo NY
187
1
received at
200 Jan.
31
to
E. Bliss or Frank 149 Asylym
St
Have an appointment at Grand Hotel eleven tomorrow can you
be there at noon
1explanatory note
Clemens
14 pd.
telegram docketed: ✓ and Mark Twain | Jan 24/712explanatory note
Explanatory Notes
1
The eleven o’clock appointment was with Isaac E. Sheldon or Francis P. Church, or both. In his subsequent meeting with Elisha Bliss, Clemens probably reported on his progress on Roughing It and answered Bliss’s objections to his commitments to Sheldon (27 Jan 71 to Bliss, n. 1click to open letter; 27 Jan 71 to Sheldon, n. 1click to open letter).
2
Bliss’s clerk misread the telegram’s date, which was poorly written.
MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L4 , 324.
see Mendoza Collection in Description of Provenance.