THE LETTERS OF QUINTUS CURTIUS SNODGRASS; by Mark Twain, eedited by Ernest E. Leisy
first edition
1946 · Dallas
by TWAIN, Mark
Dallas: SMU Press, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xii, 76. A very good copy without dj. BAL 3575. The first appearance of 6 letters. Bookseller and Twain scholar Kevin Macdonnell notes: " Twain's supposed authorship ofthese letters, first published in a newspaper in1861, has been disproved. Cf. Allan Bates'sUniversity of Chicago dissertation and ClaudeBrinegar's article in `Journal of the American Statistical Association (March, 1963, 58:85-96).NOT to be confused with Twain's Thomas JeffersonSnodgrass letters of 1856-57. (Inventory #: 56978)