Clemens, Samuel L.

Autograph letter signed ("Good-bye you dear ashcat, & love & kisses from Father"), 4 pages on mourning stationery, Dublin, New Hampshire, mid-June 1905, to his daughter Clara, informing her of his desire for Clara and Jean to publish his letters. Together with: autograph envelope.

Clemens names Clara and Jean editors of his letters. "I'm appoint you & Jean to arrange & publish my 'Letters' some day—I don't want it done by any outsider. Miss Lyon can do the work, & do it well. There's plenty Letters here & there & yonder to select from; Twichell has 250, Howells used to have a bushel, Mr. Rogers has some, & so on."

He then rails about the Republican Party in closing: "I already know the monarchy's ancestor, the same being the Republican Party: after which comes the Labor Party, & after it the Monarchy."