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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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