16? July 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtY-BR UCCL 01252)
Bliss please print this title-page & mail to me for transmission to Washington.1explanatory note
Mark Twain’s Sketches.
{New & Old.}
Now First Published in a
Complete Form
in this country.Ⓐemendation
{Sold only by Supbscription.}
Hartford:
The American Publishing Co.
1875.
new page:
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by Samuel L. Clemens, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
The date assigned conjecturally to this letter allows sufficient time for the printing of the requested title page and for its transmission to Clemens and then to Washington, where Copyright No. 7619 was issued on 21 July 1875 (information courtesy of the Copyright Office, Library of Congress).
MS, Willard S. Morse Collection, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR).
L6 , 513.
The Morse Collection was donated in 1942 by Walter F. Frear.