To Stephen C. Massett
31 January 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: ViU, UCCL 01900)
31 January 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: ViU, UCCL 01900)
Jan. 31, 1881.
slc My Dear Massett—
Glad to hear from you—shall be glad to see you, too. Come up—the latch string hangs outside the door—& drop me a line to say what day & train you select. I’ll try to meet you at the train; but if I am pretvented, just take a hack & name my nom de plume & they’ll fetch you to
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
References
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- 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
MS, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, ViU.
Bennett Book Studios catalog, no. 25, 1955, lot 29.
The MS was offered for sale in 1949 by Emily Driscoll and in 1955 by Bennett Book Studios.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.