To Oliver Wendell Holmes
per
American Publishing Company employee
15? September 1869 • Hartford, Conn. (MS card with copy of The Innocents Abroad: MH-H, UCCL 12512)
per
American Publishing Company employee
15? September 1869 • Hartford, Conn. (MS card with copy of The Innocents Abroad: MH-H, UCCL 12512)
With respects of
Samℓ L Clements 1explanatory note
Explanatory Notes
1 Probably around the middle of September, the American Publishing Company sent at Clemens’s
request a copy of The Innocents Abroad to Oliver Wendell Holmes, who responded on 26 September (see 30 Sept 1869click to open link to Holmes, n. 1)
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). The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrims’ Progress. Hartford: American Publishing Company. 1869
MS card sent with copy of SLC 1869, MH-H (call no. *AC85 H7375 Zz869c). The card was tipped into the book, presumably when it was rebound in half morocco, and the book is signed by Holmes on the inner flap (‘O W Holmes | Boston’) and on the flyleaf (‘O W Holmes’).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.