ALS, [1874] February 19, Hartford, to "Friend Bliss."

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ALS, [1874] February 19, Hartford, to "Friend Bliss."

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Clemens writes his publisher Frank Bliss proposing that "...you stock these 35 marine libraries with nice copies of my books, also that you make a jolly summer voyage to San Francisco as my proxy, in one of the choice vessels of the line...that you see that my poor old excellent but perishable Aunt Rachael is shipped westward...that you personally superintend the embalming of my aunt...if she shall not be in a condition for embalming at the end of the voyage, you must sue & compel the company to fulfill the contract...But mind, I don't want her sent back here...If you can't go, Bliss, send the good old Rachael anyway."

4 p., 17.5 x 11 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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