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Show THREE MARK TWAIN ITEMS One le a Characteristic Letter From the Weil-Known Humorist to a Friend. Three Interesting Mark Twain Items are In the George Rentham library, which will be sold at Anderson s on November 28. One Is a two-psgo letter. let-ter. Elmlra. July 12 (no year, but presumed pre-sumed to be about 1884), to a friend named Conway, and refers to the publishing pub-lishing house of Webster ' & Co., which Mark Twain founded In IKS. The letter reads In part: H are full, clear up to the coin NMndle only two books a year pm under contract for six. already declined a book of h no com for It, and we could er, anyway. My. book was Nrijr year sgo andia likely A. Wad long tlm bfoje 1, B fflat "by our concern Lure of Webster A Co,, It will be recalled. Involved Mark Twain In heavy losses, which be made up later by the success of his own boos and lectures. It Is thought that perhaps he unpublished book he refers to In his letter was "Hucklebery Finn," which was Issued in 1884. Another Mark Twain lot consists of five characteristic telegrams from him to James Redpath, 1869 74. In one of them he says: "Notify all hands that from this date I shall talk nothing ut selections fnm my forih-coming forih-coming book, 'Roughing It.' Tried It last nlgbt. Suits me tip top." In another an-other telegram he says about going to Amherst to lecture. "If I had another an-other engagement I would rob before I would fill It." There Is also an ameslng three-page three-page letter, In pencil, signed "Mar," and written In 1869 to James Red-path. Red-path. In It be says: "I don't want to lecture In Hrook-lyn Hrook-lyn any more. This Is the very society so-ciety I thought that Infernal woman was representing. Rut I've got enough. I never will lecture outside of New England again, and I never will lecture In Rrooklyn at all. Suspend Sus-pend Judgment till you see me. She made that ad. read as If I was talking on my own hook, and for no society." |