To
William P. Carpenter
23 September 1869 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: NNC, UCCL 00357)
23 September 1869 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: NNC, UCCL 00357)
Buffalo, Sept. 23.
Dear Sir—
I have forwarded your note to my Boston agent, Mr. Redpath, & he will fix a date & reply to you.1explanatory note
With thanks—
Yrs Truly
Sam.ℓ L.
Clemens.
Explanatory Notes
1
William Penn Carpenter represented the Utica (N.Y.) Mechanics’ Association, for which Clemens lectured on 14 January 1870. He was a bookkeeper for J. S. and M. Peckham, a Utica stove company (“Mark Twain,” Utica Observer, 14 Jan 70, 3; Utica Directory, front flyleaf, 46). This letter survives in the papers of his son, philologist and educator William Henry Carpenter.
References
- Columbia University, New York
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 3: 1869. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Dahlia Armon. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1992
- Utica Directory. Utica City Directory, 1869–70. Utica, N.Y.: John H. Francis. 1869
MS, William Henry Carpenter Papers, Columbia University, New York City (NNC).
L3 , 356–357.
donated to NNC with the papers of William Penn Carpenter’s son, philologist and educator William Henry Carpenter (1853–1936).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.