To
Lilian Aldrich
9 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 10843)
9 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 10843)

rogers & nelson,
art photographers,
and portrait painters,
215, regent st
london, w.
art photographers,
and portrait painters,
215, regent st
london, w.
To Mrs. T. B. Aldrich
With regards not to be expressed in their full strength because of the overlooking eye of T. B.
Samℓ. L. Clemens
Mark Twain.
Hartford, Mch. 9, 1874.1explanatory note
Explanatory Notes
1
This photograph, taken in 1873, was a memento of the Aldriches’ visit with the Clemenses ( L5 , 533 n. 3). “Copyright” is in an unidentified hand.
References
- Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.
- 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 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 5: 1872–1873. Edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1997
MS, Houghton Library, Harvard University (MH-H, Autograph File).
L6 , 63–64.
Donated by the Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memorial Trustees in June 1943.
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