To
John T. Raymond
13 May 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, author’s paraphrase: CtHMTH, UCCL 01234)
13 May 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, author’s paraphrase: CtHMTH, UCCL 01234)
In answer sent Raymond $1500 to Elmira at 7 per cent interest—refusing the 1 per cent a month.1explanatory note
S. L. C.
Explanatory Notes
1
Clemens replied to a second telegram from Raymond, still in Utica, which was received by the Hartford telegraph operator at 2 a.m. on 13 May: “Will you lend me fifteen hundred dollars until October first one per cent a month if so send to Elmira” (CtHMTH). Clemens recorded his answer, probably also sent as a telegram, on the back of Raymond’s message.
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). “San Francisco Letter.” Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 13–16 January, not extant. Reprinted as “Mark Twain’s Reminiscence” in both the Austin (Nev.) Reese River Reveille, 18 January, 3, and the Shasta (Calif.) Courier 15 (17 February): 1, and as “Captain Montgomery” in the Golden Era 14 (28 January): 6. Modern reprintings may be found in Walker 1938[bib00199], 104–5; Henry Nash Smith[bib00084], 8–9; Taper[bib00457], 197–99. 1866
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
MS, author’s paraphrase, on back of Raymond to SLC, 13 May 75 (UCLC 32166), Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).
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