CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph letter signed ("Samuel L. Clemens") to "Mess. Warren Choate & Co., Washington," Hartford, 26 February n.y. [ca. 1874-1875], 1 page, 8vo, on lined paper, responding to a publisher's request for the rights to "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County": "I am not so situated as to be able to sell the 'Jumping Frog,' because I am just on the point of issuing it in book form through my publishers here along with all my sketches complete [undoubtedly Mark Twain's Sketches New and Old, 1875]..." -- Autograph letter signed ("Mark") to his publisher ("Friend Bliss"), [probably Hartford], 9 March 1874, 1 page, 8vo, slight fold creases. "Damnation! Please send a cloth Roughing It [first published 1872) to [the author] B.P. Shillaber, Chelsea, Mass. I wish people would ask for all the books at once, & save me a trifle of note-writing." Together 2 items. (2)

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph letter signed ("Samuel L. Clemens") to "Mess. Warren Choate & Co., Washington," Hartford, 26 February n.y. [ca. 1874-1875], 1 page, 8vo, on lined paper, responding to a publisher's request for the rights to "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County": "I am not so situated as to be able to sell the 'Jumping Frog,' because I am just on the point of issuing it in book form through my publishers here along with all my sketches complete [undoubtedly Mark Twain's Sketches New and Old, 1875]..." -- Autograph letter signed ("Mark") to his publisher ("Friend Bliss"), [probably Hartford], 9 March 1874, 1 page, 8vo, slight fold creases. "Damnation! Please send a cloth Roughing It [first published 1872) to [the author] B.P. Shillaber, Chelsea, Mass. I wish people would ask for all the books at once, & save me a trifle of note-writing." Together 2 items. (2)