To Lucy Webb Hayes
24 January 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: OFH, UCCL 09312)
24 January 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: OFH, UCCL 09312)
the
autographic
illinois state testimonial
to
mrs. president hayes.
autograph:
Total Abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extreme. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from Total Abstinence itself.
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
(“Mark Twain”)
town:
county:
state: Hartford, Conn., Jan. 24, 1881.
official position,
profession, or
business:
References
- Rutherford B. Hayes Library, Fremont, Ohio
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, OFH.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center was established by the Hayes family in 1916.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.