To
Joseph H.
Twichell and Elisabeth G. (Lilly)
Warner
14 April 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (Cyril Clemens 1932, 35, UCCL 11145)
14 April 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (Cyril Clemens 1932, 35, UCCL 11145)
Borrowed of the above recently with instructions to be very careful of it—which I have done up to the present moment when I transfer it to Mrs. Lily Warner, against her will. Do also transfer to her all responsibility appertaining to the book.1explanatory note
S. L. ClemensⒶemendation.
10:55 A.M.
April 14, 1874.
Explanatory Notes
1
The day before Clemens and his family left for Elmira to spend the spring and summer, he wrote this note “on the front page” of an unidentified book of Twichell’s, “beneath Twichell’s signature” (Cyril Clemens 1932, 35). Lilly Warner eventually returned the book to Twichell, whose family still owned it in 1932.
Emendations and Textual Notes
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Clemens ●
Clemens
References
- Clemens, Cyril. Mark Twain the Letter Writer. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Boston: Meador Publishing Company. 1932
- 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
Cyril Clemens 1932, 35.
L6 , 107.
The unidentified book in which the letter was written remained in the Twichell family until at least 1932.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.