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. >>