To
Matthew H. Bartlett
October 1877 • 1st of 3 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, inscription in The Innocents Abroad: CtHMTH, UCCL 09280)
October 1877 • 1st of 3 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, inscription in The Innocents Abroad: CtHMTH, UCCL 09280)
To Mr. Bartlett, who has robbed the historical
command “Away with him to the
Tower!” of all its terrors—this,
With the grateful acknowledgments of
Mark Twain1explanatory note
Hartford, Oct. 1877.
Explanatory Notes
1 In 1867 Matthew Henry Bartlett (1833–1914) and his nephew, Charles A. Kellogg, built
Bartlett tower on Talcott Mountain, which became a favorite destination for Clemens
and Twichell on their walks. Bartlett was a former owner and publisher of the Hartford
Republican, a weekly newspaper, later remembered by the Courant as “the only free soil paper in this vicinity” (“Bartlett Tower Builder Is Dead,”
Hartford Courant, 15 Dec 1914, 4).
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
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrims’ Progress. Hartford: American Publishing Company. 1869
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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 an 1876 imprint of SLC 1869, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.