24 September 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00432)
By authority of this document I introduce you to my wife, & beg that you will administer the accompanying oath & otherwise complete & make valid the accompanying power of attorney.2explanatory note
It will be a very great fe favor Ⓐemendationif you can save her the necessity of getting out of the carriage, for is not strong & face Ⓐemendationfacing the terrors of the law in your awe-inspiring den.
Locke was an attorney at the Buffalo law firm of Dennis Bowen and Sherman S. Rogers, which regularly handled legal matters for Clemens. By 1871 the firm had become Bowen, Rogers and Locke (16 and 17 Apr 70 to the Langdons; Buffalo Directory: 1870, 304, 426, 550; 1871, 276, 422, 576).
Doubtless authorizing Clemens to act on his wife’s behalf in financial matters. He already was one of the executors of Jervis Langdon’s estate.
References
- Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn.
- 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 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1995
MS, Cyril Clemens Collection, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).
L4 , 200.
donated to CtHMTH in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.
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