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Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:32:43 -0700
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Thanks, I did - $23

On 8/24/21 12:54 PM, Kerry Driscoll wrote:
> Try Abe Books.  I've always found them to be a good source
> for reasonably priced used books.
>
> Kerry
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 3:50 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Can you imagine, Amazon wants $579.95 for this book.  (I found only a
>> single reference to "Reasoner" in MTP Letters, dated 1885.)
>>
>> On 8/24/21 12:09 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
>>> In a letter to Charles Webster, dated June 8, 1883 and transcribed in
>> MARK
>>> TWAIN, BUSINESS MAN, p. 214, SLC instructs Webster to go to the Delaware,
>>> Lackawanna & Hudson to rent a special sleeping  car to Elmira. He says he
>>> had formerly gotten the car from Mr. A. Reasoner but he had not received
>> a
>>> reply yet. He writes Webster, “Go directly to the President of the road &
>>> he will tell you how to proceed.”
>>>
>>> Barb
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>> The note on page 174 of Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals Vol III
>>>> indicate that the editors of this volume knew that DL&W officers in
>> Hoboken
>>>> were handling arrangements for the Clemenses special railway car.  My
>>>> question is how did they know this. Their note says only that
>> instructions
>>>> to Webster about the memoirs were written on the recto of the back
>> flyleaf.

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