To Erroll and Gwendolyn Scoville-Drake
26 February 1885 • New York, New York (Sales catalog: inscription in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sotheby’s, sale of 15 July 1998, no. LN8412, lot 440, UCCL 13146)
26 February 1885 • New York, New York (Sales catalog: inscription in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sotheby’s, sale of 15 July 1998, no. LN8412, lot 440, UCCL 13146)
To Gwennie and Erroll—
with the best wishes and kindest regards of
The Author
New York, February 26, 1885Ⓐemendation
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ To . . . 1885 ● lineation and capitalization have been editorially supplied to match SLC’s other book
inscriptions from this period.
References
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co. 1885
- 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
sales catalog, inscription in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sotheby’s, sale of 15 July 1998, no. LN8412, lot 440.
see source text.
none known.
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