To
Elisha Bliss, Jr.
18 November 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 01281)
18 November 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 01281)
Thursday.
Friend Bliss:
Please send me one of those dark green half morocco copies of the Sketch Book for Mrs. C.1explanatory note
Yrs
SLC.
united states postal card. | write the address only on this side—the message on the other | to American Publishing Co | 284 Asylum st | City | postmarked: hartford conn. nov 18 6 pm
Explanatory Notes
1 Bliss complied
on 20 November (APC 1876).
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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 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
- St. Mary’s Seminary, Perryville, Mo.
- APC (American Publishing Company). “S. L. Clemens To American Pub. Co. Dr.” Statement of account dated 1 January. Scrapbook 10:25, CU-MARK. 1876
MS facsimile, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California (CU-MARK).
L6 , 592–592.
The present location of the MS is not known; the photocopy in CU-MARK was provided in 1972 by St. Mary’s Seminary in Perryville, Missouri (MoPeS). The postcard was one of “eight items of autograph material” donated to MoPeS in 1944 by Estelle Doheny. It is not clear whether this “material” consisted of manuscripts or photocopies. By 1982 the MoPeS archive contained only photocopies.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.