To
John H. Gourlie, Jr.
7 September 1869 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 10500)
7 September 1869 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 10500)
morning express $10 per annum. office of the express printing company
evening
express $8 per annum. no. 14 east swan
street.
weekly express $1.50 per annum.
buffalo,
Sept. 7
186
9.
With pleasure
Yrs Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens
“Mark Twain”
Jno. H. Gourlie, Esq.1explanatory note
Explanatory Notes
1
It was probably John Hamilton Gourlie, Jr. (1853–1904), who had requested Clemens’s autograph. Gourlie, named after an uncle who was a founder of the Century Club of New York, later wrote General Average (1881), about the laws and customs of the United States and other countries, and by the end of his life was “a recognized authority on insurance matters”(“John H. Gourlie Dead,”New York Times, 21 Feb 1904, 7).
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
- McBride, William M, comp. Mark Twain: A Bibliography of the Collections of the Mark Twain Memorial and the Stowe-Day Foundation. Hartford, Conn.: McBride/Publisher. 1984
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 3: 1869. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Dahlia Armon. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1992
MS, Mark Twain Memorial, Hartford, Conn. (CtHMTH).
McBride, 365; L3 , 341.
acquired by CtHMTH in 1978.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.