To
Charles E. Perkins
12 June 1877 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 01440)
12 June 1877 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 01440)
Elmira, June 12
Dr Sir—Enclosed is the $20.
When is the dramatic vacation coming! ItⒶemendation will be a relief to get Bergen down to $15 a week.1explanatory note
WⒶemendation Clara Clemens is quite sick with a raging fever this (Sunday) morning. Pulse 150. We take her to the farm this afternoon if doctor permits.2explanatory note
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
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Whenever receipts fail to pay Raymond’s wife, I you need not pay her out of my pocket. I suppose you notified Raymond to stop her salary3explanatory note
S.L.C
Explanatory Notes
1 A reduction, that is, in the salary Clemens was paying H. W. Bergen as his financial
overseer with the touring company of Colonel Sellers.
2 The Clemenses had left Hartford on 6 June. They were presently staying at the Elmira
home of Mrs. Jervis Langdon, but planned to move to Quarry Farm, outside the city.
3 Marie Gordon, John T. Raymond’s wife, often took the part of Laura Hawkins in Colonel Sellers (19 and 25 Jan 1875 to Stillson, L6, 355 n. 1).
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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Colonel Sellers. A Drama in Five Acts. By Samuel L. Clemens. Mark Twain. Elmira N. Y. Entered in the office of the Librarian of Congress. July 1874. A dramatization of The Gilded Age. Three manuscripts by two amanuenses survive: MS 1, DLC, submitted for copyright, five acts without separate title pages, by amanuensis 1; MS 2, CU-MARK, duplicate of MS 1, by amanuensis 1; MS 3, CU-MARK, five acts with separate title pages, by amanuensis 2, with notes in another hand; in MSS 1 and 2, Laura is acquitted; in MS3, she is found guilty. 1874
- 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, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.