To Unidentified
22 February 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MiMtpT, UCCL 09320)
22 February 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MiMtpT, UCCL 09320)
There isn’t any merit in doing a thing which it is a pleasure to do: & therefore none is claimed this time by
Ys Truly
S L. Clemens
(Mark Twain)
Hartford, Feb. 22, 1882.
References
- Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mich.
- 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
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, MiMtpT. The letter, written on a small piece of paper or card, is now archived with an engraved portrait of Clemens by Alexander Hay Ritchie taken from an 1874 photograph (CU-MARK PH00076).
MicroPUL, reel 2.