To James Hammond Trumbull
1 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtHi, UCCL 01902)
1 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtHi, UCCL 01902)
Feb. 1.
Dear Dr Trumbull—
I’m safe in closing a book with this note, ain’t I? You make the date 1819. It ain’t a misprint?
Please return me the note.
(For my purposes) I am sorry “sturdy vagabonds” were not enslaved BEFORE Edward the Sixth’s time——but I gather from you that they weren’t.
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
References
- Connecticut Historical Society, 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
MS, CtHi.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Acquired by CtHi in about 1897 from the James Hammond Trumbull estate.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.