Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "All right. Many thanks"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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MTPDocEd
To Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
6–8 June 1874 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 11898)
english publishers’ depot. commission booksellers and importers. agents for “bohn’s libraries,” the oxford university press, and the leading publishing houses of england and scotland. ☞ special orders despatched by every steamer ☜. new york, June 5th  187 4   m r Mark Twain Care J. Langdon & Co                                                            Elmira N.Y               bought of scribner, welford & armstrong, 654 broadway, (between bleecker and bond st.) l. w. bangs, manager. sent per Ex                                                 terms—net cash, payable with exchange on n. y.  ☞ not responsible for goods sent out to be packed. claims for deductions must be made within one week after receipt of goods. 1 Rule’s Inquisition        2v  1050           $8.40 Ⓐemendation 1explanatory note “Whittaker’s Reference Catalogue” is not yet ready, we will forward when published. 2explanatory note

All right. Many thanks.

Ys Truly
Mark Twain

invoice docketed: receiv’d payment scribner, welford & armstrong. jun 9 1874 and ✓ and O IlleadⒶemendation 3explanatory note

Textual Commentary
6–8 June 1874 • To Scribner, Welford and Armstrong • Elmira, N.Y. • UCCL 11898
Source text(s):

MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous Publication:

L6 , 154–155.

Provenance:

see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

Explanatory Notes
1 

William Harris Rule’s two-volume History of the Inquisition: From Its Establishment in the Twelfth Century to Its Extinction in the Nineteenth (London: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; New York: Scribner, Welford and Company, 1874). Clemens apparently received a 20 percent discount on its price.

2 

A Reference Catalogue of Current Literature Containing the Full Titles of Books Now in Print and On Sale, with the Prices at Which They May Be Obtained of All Booksellers, published in London by Joseph Whitaker. Its prefatory “Advertisement,” dated 16 June 1874, reported that publication of the “volume of three thousand pages, containing the full titles of perhaps fifty thousand books,” the first in an annual series, had been delayed “a month or six weeks” so that a partial index could be prepared (viii).

3 This signature, written across the rubber-stamped docket, is not entirely construable; the present reading is therefore at best an approximation. Scribner, Welford and Armstrong returned the docketed invoice to Clemens as his paid receipt. The establishment was one of three sister firms with offices at 654 Broadway. The others were Scribner, Armstrong and Company, publishers and booksellers, and Scribner and Company, publishers of Scribner’s Monthly (Wilson 1874, 1180).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  $8.40  •  $8|40 written with a ledger line separating the dollars and cents
Ⓐ  O Illead •  scrawled; doubtful
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