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office of continental life insurance co., of hartford, conn.
hartford,
6/15
1881.
Samℓ L. Clemens Esq
Hartford, Ct—
_______
on the verso:
office of continental life insurance co., of hartford, conn.
dear sir:
we would respectfully urge upon you the propriety and necessity of paying the accrued
interest upon the notes given by you in adjustment of the premiums under your policy
in this company.
the company have not, during the past few years,—mostly years of depression and therefore
to many of difficulty,—pressed their policy-holders for the payment of their over-due
interest obligations. now that general prosperity has returned and continued, it is
but just that the company should require the payment of the interest due them.
it is an open question whether, in most cases, the neglect to make such payment does
not forfeit the policy, and there is no longer any reason why further neglect should
not work its legitimate result. certainly every policy-holder can see that the payment
by a part of the policy-holders and its neglect by the others is not equity. your
prompt attention to this matter will be to your benefit. we append a statement of
the arrears of interest expecting an early remittance.
very respectfully,
robert e. beecher, sec’y.
no.
11439
am't insured
$
1.000.
notes outstanding,
$335.
interest accrued
Nov 8
188
0
$
264.93
Deferred 7 mo
$ 9.27
total interest due
June 8
1881;
$
274.20
Branford July 2/81.
Mr. Perkins—
Dr Sir—
I thought that this ridiculous attempt at a swindle was given up, some 3 or 4 years
ago. Didn’tⒶ you understand it so?
Emendations and Textual Notes
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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
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