To
Unidentified
20 November 1871 • Hartford, Conn. (Paraphrase and transcript: Anderson
Auction Company 1914, lot 101, UCCL 09850)
20 November 1871 • Hartford, Conn. (Paraphrase and transcript: Anderson
Auction Company 1914, lot 101, UCCL 09850)
. . . .
paraphrase: on his traveling from place to place lecturing, so have no time to write articles . . . Hartford is now my home
. . . .
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
Hartford, Nov. 20. ●
reported, not
quoted
References
- Anderson Auction Company. A Catalogue of Choice Books and Autograph Letters. Sale no. 347 (15 December). New York: Anderson Auction Company. 1904
- 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). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1995
Paraphrase and transcript, Anderson Auction Company 1914, lot 101. The catalog describes the MS as ‘CLEMENS (S. L.—“Mark Twain”). A. L. S., 8vo, Hartford, Nov. 20, 1871, on a full letter-sheet with his monogram.’ The quotation marks around Clemens’s pseudonym reflect catalog style and do not indicate how he signed his letter. He and Olivia were both using only her monogramed stationery at this time (see OLC to Howland, 20 Nov 71click to open link, and SLC to OLC, 27 Nov 71click to open link).
L4 , 495.