To Charles L. Webster
19 September 1882 • 2nd of 2 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02272)
19 September 1882 • 2nd of 2 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02272)
Sept. 19/82
Dear Charley—
I want Messrs. Alaexander & Green to go for these people at once & lively, on some charge or other. They are using my name to sell stuff which I never wrote. I would not be the author of that witless stuff (Bad Boy’s Diary) for a million dollars.
I want them saltedⒶemendation well for saying I am author of Bad Boy’s Diary, too.
Get & send me this “Ha-ha-ha.”
Ys Truly
S L Clemens
Go for ’em lively & at once.
Emendations and Textual Notes
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 197; MicroPUL, reel 2.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open letter.