I happen to be currently reading Mark Twain, Businessman. A local bookseller found a copy for me somewhere for a price I can't remember, but must have been comfortable paying just before COVID hit. The author has a bit of his great-uncle's with and sardonic approach to events. If I can help you with quotations, or pictures of pages, you need only ask. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Scott Holmes Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 3:43 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: So, how did the editors know this...? 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. >>