Letter to Elisha Bliss, Jr., [manuscript], [1871] January 24.

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Letter to Elisha Bliss, Jr., [manuscript], [1871] January 24.

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Twain discusses whether it is too soon to release his "Sketch book" as Bliss had suggested as it may interfere with the sale of "Innocents Abroad." He suggests the new publication order of "Roughing It," followed by a book on diamond mining in South Africa, and then the "Sketch Book."

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Bliss, Elisha, 1822-1880

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