20? October 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 03233)
I suppose they ought to give up the order
on Routle[ d ]ge now. S L C.1explanatory note
address p.o. box 2193. shipping & commission merchants. foreign carriers
office of the american-foreign & european express,
davies, turner & co. 40 & 42 broadway,
chief offices
new york, 40 & 42 broadway.
liverpool, 20 water street.
79 gracechurch st. e.c.
london, { 335 oxford st. w.c.
paris, 19 rue bergère.
branch offices & agencies in all
the principal towns of europe &c.
We have since writing on 12th received draft endorsed to our order drawn by you in London 4th Oct 1872 for sixteen pounds, in payment for the engraving “Christ leaving the Prætorium.” The noteⒶemendation is drawn on Mess Geo Routledge & Sons, London.
Mr Perkins raises the question as to the time of delivery. Mess Fairless & Beeforth have on previous occasions advised us that they never promise engravings by any specified time, as nⒶemendation they are unable to do so, as the completion of the plate depends upon the engraver and if they were to hurry him they should risk the finish of the plate.
We shall feel obliged by your honoring the above draft and take the picture, as we have instructions to put the first in circulation
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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
MS, in pencil, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.