AbeBooks has Mark Twain, Business Man for sale at $15. I saw it on Amazon
for $18.57.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 4:00 PM Kerry Driscoll <[log in to unmask]>
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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