To
Henry Lee
4 October 1872 • London, England (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 00818)
4 October 1872 • London, England (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 00818)
Oct. 4—night.
One o’clock tomorrow—all right. Will do my level best not to forget it. The best way will be not to get up till one. If you don’t find me at breakfast, skip right up in the lift. Thanks.
Yrs
Clemens.
post card
the address only to be written on this side.
to
Henry Lee, Esq
43 Holland street
Blackfriars Road,
London, S.E.
postmarked: london • w 7 oc 5 72 and london • e. c ba oc 5 72
References
- Collection of Todd M. Axelrod, Gallery of History
- 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
- Marshall, C. R. Dendy. The British Post Office from Its Beginnings to the End of 1925. London: Oxford University Press. 1926
- 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
- Axelrod, Todd M. Collecting Historical Documents: A Guide to Owning History. Rev. ed. Neptune City, N.J.: T. F. H. Publications. 1986
MS, collection of Todd M. Axelrod. The letter was written on a halfpenny postcard printed in violet ink and measuring 4¾ by 3 inches, of a type in use from November 1870 until January 1875 (Marshall, 43, 46). The royal coat of arms appearing under the words ‘post card’ (191.9) has not been reproduced here.
L5 , 191; Current Company, item 29; Todd M. Axelrod, 124.
The MS was sold in 1977 by the Current Company of Rhode Island. It was acquired—perhaps then, certainly before 1981—by Jim Williams, a collector. Axelrod owned it by June 1983.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.