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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph letter signed ("S L Clemens") to Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century, Hartford, 17 March 1887. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, both sides of a sheet.
REQUESTING PROOFS OF "ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT"
"Please send me a couple of proofs of 'English as She is Taught' [for the Century magazine appearance]. I want to cut them up & patch a ten-minute-reading together...to read at the Boston Museum the last afternoon of this month, where a gang of authors are going to read & speak for the benefit of the Longfellow Memorial...There isn't time to ask your permission for the brief Boston Museum reading, but you would grant it anyhow, for Brer Longfellow's sake; & the Boston brethren are very urgent. Holmes, Lowell, Howells & Aldrich are in the list of readers."
Provenance: "Property of a California Collector" (sale, Sotheby's New York, 10 December 1993, lot 227).
REQUESTING PROOFS OF "ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT"
"Please send me a couple of proofs of 'English as She is Taught' [for the Century magazine appearance]. I want to cut them up & patch a ten-minute-reading together...to read at the Boston Museum the last afternoon of this month, where a gang of authors are going to read & speak for the benefit of the Longfellow Memorial...There isn't time to ask your permission for the brief Boston Museum reading, but you would grant it anyhow, for Brer Longfellow's sake; & the Boston brethren are very urgent. Holmes, Lowell, Howells & Aldrich are in the list of readers."
Provenance: "Property of a California Collector" (sale, Sotheby's New York, 10 December 1993, lot 227).