Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Heritage Auctions:: World's Largest Collectibles Auctioneers, 478 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA 94111, ([])

Cue: "The album has gone to Hartford"

Source format: "MS facsimile"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2009-01-06T14:30:56

Revision History: RHH 2008-06-27 can't figure out how to say the source is a photocopy from a dealer | ldm 2009-01-06

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Unknown
20 September 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile, Heritage Auctions catalog: UCCL 13110)
Elmira, Sept. 20/84.
Dear Sir:

The album has gone to Hartford, I judge, where I have not been for 4 months, but where I shall doubtless be, a week or ten days hence.

Ys Truly
S L Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, Heritage Auctions catalog, sale of 25 October 2007, https://historical.ha.com/itm/autographs/authors/samuel-l-clemens-mark-twain-autograph-letter-signed-s-l-clemens-one-page-5-x-85-elmira-september-20-1884-total-/a/675-30310.s. Last accessed 26 May 2023.

Provenance:

Heritage Auction Galleries offered this letter at auction as part of The Henry E. Luhrs Collection of "important American manuscripts" on 20–21 February 2006. The gallery's website lists the sale date as 25 October 2007.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Top