To
Elisha Bliss, Jr.
14 September 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: DGU, UCCL 02167)
14 September 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: DGU, UCCL 02167)
Sept. 14.
Friend Bliss—
Don’t forget to put this in Tom Sawyer:
five lines enclosed in diamond: To My Wife This book is Affectionately Dedicated.1explanatory note
Yrs
Clemens
letter docketed: Saml Clemens | Sept 14 ″76
Explanatory Notes
1 This dedication appears verbatim in the American edition.
References
- Georgetown University Library, 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
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . . . A Facsimile of the Author’s Holograph Manuscript. Introduction by Paul Baender. 2 vols. Frederick, Md., and Washington, D.C.: University Publications of America and Georgetown University Library. 1982
MS, Brady Collection, DGU.
SLC 1982, no page, facsimile.
The letter was apparently kept with the holograph manuscript of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which passed from Elisha Bliss, Jr., to his son Walter. Walter Bliss died in 1917; before 1926, the manuscript was bought by Nicholas F. Brady. After Brady’s death in 1930, the manuscript became the property of his widow, Genevieve Garvan Brady, who donated it to DGU in April 1934 (SLC 1982, ix).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.