To Unidentified
1 September 1879 • SS Gallia, en route from Liverpool, England, to New York, N.Y. (MS, in pencil, of inscription in Mallock 1878:
Hyman, UCCL 12027)
1 September 1879 • SS Gallia, en route from Liverpool, England, to New York, N.Y. (MS, in pencil, of inscription in Mallock 1878:
Hyman, UCCL 12027)
in an unidentified hand: This is a book wit
Certainly it is.
Yrs Truly
S. L. Clemens
Mark
Twain
“Gallia,”
Sept. 1/79.
the new republic
, a book
which treats of lightⒶemendation things seriously; of serious things, lightly; of all things wittily,—which destroys
without
remaking, suggests without satisfying, inquires without answering, stops without ending.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
which treats of light •
partly rubbed away
MS, in pencil, of inscription in Mallock 1878, collection of Dan Hyman.
MicroPUL, reel 1.