Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Sotheby’s, New York, N.Y ([])

Cue: "It is a most damaged & piratical-looking picture,"

Source format: "MS facsimile, photograph"

Letter type: "photograph"

Notes:

Last modified: 2005-03-03T00:00:00

Revision History: Larson, Brian | BL 2005-03-03 was undated, New York; original seen in 1993

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Mrs. Pemberton-Hinks
1884–1887 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Sotheby’s, New York, December 1993, UCCL 10466)
on verso of photograph of Mark Twain:

Quarrels begun with roses breed no bloodshed!

Sincerely Yours
S. L. Clemens
cross-written over valediction and signature:Mark Twain

To

Mrs. Pemberton-Hinks.


Hartford, Saturday illegible 7.Ⓐemendation


⟦It is a most damaged & piratical looking picture, & nothing can excuse it but the fact that it is the only one left on the place.⟧

S L C
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, Sotheby’s, New York, December 1993. The inscription is on the back of a photograph (mounted on a card) of Mark Twain, taken by the New York photographer Benjamin J. Falk.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ Saturday . . . 7. ● [Saturday . . . 7.] doubtful, writing almost entirely scratched away
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