20 July 1872 • New Saybrook, Conn. (MS: ViU, UCCL 00770)
Been looking for Harte here. If he comes, will let you know.1explanatory note If he comes, he may run up to Hartford with me.
What does Lockwood say about the patent?2explanatory note
letter docketed: Saml. Clemens | July 20th 72
Henry C. Lockwood of Baltimore, inventor of an “elastic waist strap,” had secured an interest in the manufacture of Clemens’s adjustable garment strap as a result of his patent dispute with Clemens in the fall of 1871. Bliss was charged with pursuing the strap’s manufacture, which was never accomplished; nothing is known of his dealings with Lockwood ( L4 , 465–66 nn. 1, 5).
References
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- 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
- 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, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).
L5 , 124.
deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 17 December 1963.
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