To
Fanny C. Hesse
22 February 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (Paraphrase and transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 12557)
22 February 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (Paraphrase and transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 12557)
written on the back of the check from John C. Merritt dated 19 February:
Miss H. will please bank this with Bissell & place it to “personal” account.
S. L. C.
check endorsed: Saml. L. Clemens by A. H. Olmsted Atty. Pay Bank of New York (N.B.A.) or Order George P. Bissell & Co.Ⓐemendation1explanatory note
Explanatory Notes
1 Clemens wrote this note to his secretary on the back of John Merritt’s check (see
UCCL 12556click to open link). George P. Bissell and Company were Clemens’s Hartford bankers and dealers in investment
securities, whom he employed from 1876 until 1891. Bissell (1827–91) and Albert H.
Olmsted (1842–1929) were the members of the firm. Both were Civil War veterans, having
served in the Connecticut 25th Infantry, Bissell as a colonel, Olmsted as a sergeant
(Geer 1876, 34, 119; Geer 1879, 35, 121).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
Geo. P. Bissell & Co. ●
Geo. P. - - - -
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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
- Geer, Elihu, comp. Geer’s Hartford City Directory, for the Year Commencing July, 1876: and Hartford Illustrated: Containing a Classified Business Directory. Hartford: Elihu Geer 1876
- Geer, Elihu, comp. Geer’s Hartford City Directory, for the Year Commencing July, 1879; and Hartford Illustrated: Containing a Classified Business Directory. Hartford: Elihu Geer. 1879
Paraphrase and transcript, CU-MARK.
Source text courtesy of T. F. Flanagan.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.
Quotation marks around Clemens’s note, and around each endorsement, have been silently omitted; single quotation marks around “personal” have been altered to double.