September 2 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook:
AGREED.
In London in ’90. Col. & McIlv.
20 % roy. from beginning.
5-year contracts
Dramatic clause annulled.
Xn Science |
Huck Finn | weekly
Which Was It? |
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Gals in Review & over for a spring book.
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I was considering higher terms from McClure [NB 45 TS 25].
Harper & Brothers wrote to Sam: “Your letter of the 30th ult. [Aug. 30] is at hand, and in compliance with your request we send you (by Express) the sheets of the volume referred to from page 66.” Sam wrote on the env. “Can’t understand it” [MTP].
Joe Twichell wrote to Sam from Elk Lake, Blue Ridge, New York:
The letter of that estimable and amiable lady which you passed on to me has caught up with me here in the woods where I am five miles from a P.O. and get mail only once a week. It is amusing indeed. Her intention is good. She says she has many years been meaning to write it—in the lapse of which she seems to have forgotten some things. Apparently, she thinks that the [illegible word] letter was your composition. … ….I recoil from the idea of making merchandise of my happy memories, and of exposing the peculiar treasures of my heart to the public curiosity. Really, I feel a delicacy about it. Besides; I have already sometime since been urgently desired by Mr. Gilder to write an article for “The Century” in “M.T. a Humorist.” I have written one for him on Charley Warner—very very unsatisfactory. [ Joe asked when they would see him again, and reminded him to remember to return Mr. Bok’s letter; MTP]. Note: no letter from Sam to Twichell since February of this year is extant; the lady, whose letter Sam passed to Joe, is therefore not known.