To Andrew Chatto
1 April 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: CLjC, UCCL 11941)
1 April 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: CLjC, UCCL 11941)
Hartford, Apl. 1/84.
Dear Mr Chatto:
Good!—that settles Hughes! Now you can settle Tauchnitz—I enclose him.
Chas. L. Webster (my nephew by marriage, & future publisher), will write you about this time. I will send him your present letter, so that he may no take note of the early-sheets suggestion. We can easily send the early sheets if we don’t forget it., for we shall have this book in type & printed, many months before we issue it.
I shall secure Canadian copyright.
Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens
MS, CLjC.
MicroPUL, reel 2; Pacific Book Auctions catalog, 6 February 2012, no. 472, lot 184, MS facsimile and transcription.
This letter was sold at auction by AAA–Anderson Galleries, 15–16 February 1934, no. 4086, lot 71, from the collection of Paul Hyde Bonner. It was in the collection of Paul H. North as of 1969. Its next known location was the James S. Copley Library, which was sold in a series of auctions by Sotheby’s, New York, between 2010 and 2011 (see source text citation above). It was for sale at auction by Pacific Book Auctions on 6 February 2012 (see previous publication citation above). Its current location is unknown.