Mark Twain: April Fool, 1884

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New York Mch 31

Dear Sir:

I am thinking of starting an autograph collection & if you approve of the idea I shall be glad to have you send me a MS. If it has not been printed I will be very glad to share the expense of copyrighting it with you.

I would enclose a stamp but I do not wish to establish the precedent as I am just starting out. Please therefore pardon View Page
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Yours very truly

William Carey

334 West 55th St N. Y. City

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Full size in new window Samuel L. Clemens Esq | Hartford | Conn [postmarked, partially torn away:] new [york][tornaway] g 84 [docketed by SLC, in pencil:] Carey

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▮ Copy-text: The Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Persons Mentioned

William Carey (1858–1901)

William Carey worked on the editorial staff of the Century Magazine for twenty years, as well as acting as a liaison between editors and production men (Arthur John, The Best Years of the Century [University of Illinois Press, 1981], 116). A legendary wit and popular with authors, he was also a member of the Authors Club.

The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing

2017, Volume 38

Edited by Leslie Myrick and Christopher Ohge

William Carey to Samuel L. Clemens
31 March 1884 • New York, N.Y.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCLC 41861)

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Persons Mentioned

The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing

2017, Volume 38