To
Charles E. Perkins
24 September 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, postal card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01488)
24 September 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, postal card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01488)
Sept 24.
Edwards wrote, a week or ten days ago that he was sending some money. Did you receive it?1explanatory note
S L Clemens
us postal card. | write the address on this side—the message on the other | Chas. E. Perkins, Esq 14 State st City. postmarked: hartford conn. sep 25 12m docketed: SLC | Sept 24. Recd & ans 25. 77
Explanatory Notes
1 Maze Edwards, on tour with the cast of Ah Sin, wrote Clemens on 10 September, “The business in St. Louis was not favorable, hence
I have not been able to send Mr Perkins, anything other than a statement for the past
week” (CU-MARK). No subsequent letter stating his intention to send money has been found.
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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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). Ah Sin. Bret Harte, coauthor. Play written between October 1876 and February 1877. The only complete text is a prompt copy of 217 pages, in an unknown hand, at ViU[bib10492]. Published in SLC 1961[bib10456]. Twenty-seven MS pages of discarded dialogue, written by both Clemens and Harte, are also at ViU[bib10492]. 1876–77
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
MS, postal card, in pencil, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.