To
Ainsworth R. Spofford
11 March 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: DLC, UCCL 01770)
11 March 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: DLC, UCCL 01770)
Hartford, Mch 11/80.
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A. R. Spofford, Esq—
I Dear Sir—I beg leave to introduce to your kind favor my nephew Samuel Moffett, who would like to burrow a little into your grand literary storehouse.
Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens.
References
- United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
MS, correspondence card, Papers of Ainsworth Rand Spofford, DLC.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
The Spofford Papers were acquired by DLC between 1923 and 1982, primarily as a donation from Barbara Spofford Morgan.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.