10 January 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: TxU-Hu, UCCL 02147)
My boy, I clear forgot about that frog, because he came when I was in Canada, & they put him in the greenhouse & he lost himself immediately. The gardenenr hunted for him every day or two; & three days ago he found him. I have seen him, & he is all right & manifestly enjoying himself.
I’ve got the pihotograph; & I have also received the several paintings, & I think they are very good indeed.
T◊ When you come east I shall be very glad if you will come & see me., wherever I may be—Elmira, N.Y., most likely—we spend our summers on a farm near ther remainder of last line, complimentary close, and signature cut away
Mr. Wattie Bowser | Care Mr. D. W. Bowser | Dallas | Texas. return address: return to s. l. clemens, hartford, conn., if not delivered within 10 days. postmarked: hartford conn. jan 10 6pm and recd dallas tex. jan 15 7am and P docketed: Rec. Jan 16 | 1882
References
- Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
- 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
- Covici, Pascal, Jr. “Dear Master Wattie: The Mark Twain–David Watt Bowser Letters.” Southwest Review 45 (Spring): 106–9. 1960
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, draft, TxU-Hu.
Covici 1960, 114; MicroPUL, reel 2.
As of 1960, the letters to Bowser were “in the possession of Bowser’s niece, Mrs. E. C. Stradley” and destined “for eventual deposit in the manuscript archives” at TxU (Covici 1960, 105).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.