, 1873-06-02
MARK TWAIN ON THE WAR-PATH.

His own Price, and What IN ADJ
vont41rcr sold Him fora ss1ix for
$4,000.
The following tells It's own story:
Now York Supreme Cour@8amuol L. Clemens
against Benjamin J. such, City md County ot
Now York, ss. Samuel L. clemens, tho plaintiff
above named, being duly sworn, depoaotb and
says: That he Is an author, lecturer, and writer,
known hs MARK Twain" That his said nano %
and fayorably been known to the public, and
all his literary productions aro published under
tho said ualne. Daponent further says that
his mid literary productions tSay ese Isa19 to
linn h az Of annual saa1t 1oueo rsae Of ors 'aaR ha9
$4,000. peponent further Bays TINT he haa had
IN oirer, and believes that he can or would xe-
ceive from publiaher or publishers 2 large sum
ot fo5 the privilege Ct Rnhahng tue
copyrighted and tho individual property Of tho
boponent further anys that but 1atoiy ho had
negotiations ponding, which Il auccesstnl, would
cation Of his said Bketches, md deponent verify
believes that tho defendant las materially inter-
fored with tho SUCCESS Of tho snmo by his acts
hereinafter Bot forth.
month Or ngg snnnGt t%a ss9s the aaH
suoh, called at night at my house. in Hartford,
and said he wanted to got mo to write b aketch
Tor an advertising pamphlet which he wna about
to publish. ), He aaid 1t would contain sketches
by many authors. He showed me proof plan
Of tho work, which contained pictures which
now recognize In the completed pamphlet now
before me Fun, Fact, aud Fanoy); said wes
very busy on book, and Mould barely get it
done IN time to eail for Europe, May 171,ny pas;;
sage WAS already taken, and therefore il would
not nav me to writo sketch for 81 600. and
would not write one for that amount OF money
He urged mo further, md finally asked 1t hnd
reprint sketch which waa not we'll known. p!
said had, md showed him q London edition Of
certain sketches OF mine, telling him he might
uee any OF thom FREQ Of charge. But ineyer All
thprized him to uBo two OF them or more. aasd
that liked aome of these akotol1os, but some l
did not like, SO mado mark In tho index op-
posite to each Of tho ones IAkod. Gave him the
book, and told him I would prefer that ho alould
II Travelling on tho Eric Road yostartiay {afay 10
I found tue noWHsnan, Blauvelt. selling this
pamphlet, with this extraordinary featuro in tho
title page: Revised and selected for this work
pamphlet contained five Of my esih1 ehotehos instead
of ono. Aud furthermore atill. it contained
with my namo attachod)t bit Of exeorablo rub
bIah b entitled q 7solf-1Iatao Man" whioh never
wrote.
consider volume OF them worth Ito MOI
not less than $25, 600, and certainly could not
publish q volume of them unless foit sure OF
getting that much for it-ono Of my REASONS be-
(ng that consider that an author cannot bunch
HAAS Of disconnected humorous sketches to-
| gothor and publish the sanae, without aiokontng
| tho public stomach and damaging hia own repu-
tatiou,
would not havo gtvon hfr. Buch permission
! to nBo 1iyo Of my sketchos aud use q ny m name in
LIS title page, AZ Ae hhB done, Tor E50tu0o atitl
! fully ui,dersta1ld that am saying this unslor
oath. Yot this man, D stranger to mo, hug soos'
| ht to think I would givo him such privilege
! without tho payment OF O cent.
Dopouout attaches loreto tho publication
which ho purchased aB aforesaid in the Erie cars,
| and maaos tho sa1na part hereof.
Deponent verify holioyea that le has been IN
jured to tho extent Of s25 GOO by the nnau.hor Or,
| bo done to dopopont unieaa tho lcfendart, bo
forthwith restrainod and onjo.ned from. eontina.
Ing tho publication aforoHald aid solling tue
Deponent further aaya that ho las rcad the
complaint horounto annexed, that the state:
ments tloreiu contained arc true, a,d nlakos tue
samo part Of this affidavit: ou
Bwosu to before mo May u, 1878.
| D. 8. RIITEnDnAnD,
] 4ary Public, Now York City.