13 January 1872 • 1st of 2 • Pittsburgh, Pa. (MS: CLjC, UCCL 00717)
$124.69 .
Gentlemen:
Enclosed please find N. Y. draft in your favor for $124.69.1explanatory note
Please acknowldg—
letter docketed: 1/16.72 and Clemens Saml L. | Pittsburg Pa | Jan. 13 ’72
See the previous letter, n. 3.
References
- The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011.
- 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 5: 1872–1873. Edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1997
- Christie. The Estelle Doheny Collection from The Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California. Part IV. Sale of 17 and 18 October. New York: Christie, Manson and Woods International. 1988
MS, James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California (CLjC).
L5 , 26; Christie 1988, lot 1187.
The MS was for many years in the Estelle Doheny Collection at The Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library of St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California. John L. Feldman purchased it in October 1988 and sold it to the Copley Library in 1990.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.