To
Charles E. Perkins
18 October 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01497)
18 October 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01497)
Oct. 18.
slcDr Sir—Send this or tear it up, as your judgment shall dictate.1explanatory note
If you decide to send it please tell them to hold the picture subject to Mr. D. Vorce’s order for a few days.—(for I should have him place it for sale in New York.)2explanatory note
Please drop me a line when you receive this.
Yrs
S L C
Explanatory Notes
1 Clemens enclosed a check to Davies and Company for $112, to cover the cost of the
engraving, customs duty, and shipping charges.
2 Perkins conveyed these instructions on 19 October, with Clemens’s check. Davies and
Company confirmed receipt of his payment on 23 October, and informed Clemens that
they had sent the engraving to A. D. Vorce, a Hartford art dealer. Vorce wrote on
25 October, “We think of putting it up in good style & expose it for sale at a moderate
price” (Davies and Company to SLC, 23 Oct 1877, CtHMTH; Vorce to SLC, 25 Oct 1877, CU-MARK).
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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
MS, correspondence card, in pencil, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.