To Olivia Susan (Susy) Clemens
25 May 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, inscription in Browning 1872: CCamarSJ, UCCL 09121)
25 May 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, inscription in Browning 1872: CCamarSJ, UCCL 09121)
inscribed in vol. 1:
To Susie Clemens,
These volumes, (in place of a promised mud turtle,) are presented, with the love of
Papa.
May 25, 1882.
N.B. The turtle was to have been brought from New Orleans, but I gave up the idea because it seemed cruel.
S. L. C.
inscribed in vol. 2:
To Susie Clemens
from
Papa.
References
- Browning, Robert. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1872
- St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California. Formerly home to the Estelle Doheny collection (now dispersed)
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, inscription in Browning 1872, CCamarSJ.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Purchased by Estelle Doheny from Maxwell Hunley Rare Books in 1951; offered for sale as part of the Estelle Doheny Collection by Christie’s, 1-2 February 1988, lot 452.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.