To A. V. S. Anthony
15 March 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: www.ebay.com, 18 February 2005, lot 6512101088, UCCL 12733)
15 March 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: www.ebay.com, 18 February 2005, lot 6512101088, UCCL 12733)
Hartford, Mch. 15.
My Dear Mr. Anthony—
I will return the pictures to you per express this evening or tomorrow. They are very beautiful; better could not be desired. If we can be as successful with the rest, we are all right.
Truly Yours
S L Clemens
I guess the boys never need never be much older than this one. If this one were called 12, I could not prove he wasn’t. I A year or two one way or the other isn’t detectable, I judge.
References
- 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
MS facsimile, www.ebay.com, 18 February 2005, lot 6512101088.
Stuart Lutz offered the MS on eBay in a sale that closed on 24 February 2005 and again in a sale that closed on 9 July 2005. The present location of the MS is not known.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.