To
James B. Pond
11 October 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NN-BGC, UCCL 02507)
11 October 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NN-BGC, UCCL 02507)
Oct. 11.
My Dear Pond—
I seem to be in a tolerably fair way to compromise with that Baltimore man, but cannot tell yet.1explanatory note
Yrs
Mark.
letter docketed: redpath lyceum hathaway & pond oct 20 1876 and Mark Twain | rule
Explanatory Notes
1
Clemens’s five-year patent conflict with “that Baltimore man,” Henry C. Lockwood, was not resolved by compromise and went into litigation in January 1877 (see 24 Jan 1877 to Bliss, n.3).
References
- New York Public Library, Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection, New York
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, NN-BGC.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
It is not known when the MS became part of the Berg Collection, given by Dr. Albert A. Berg to NN in 1940, but continuously enlarged since then.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.