To Edward W. Bok
9 August 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: R & R Enterprises Autograph Auctions, 14 September 2011, no. 375, lot 525, UCCL 13384)
9 August 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: R & R Enterprises Autograph Auctions, 14 September 2011, no. 375, lot 525, UCCL 13384)
written on the verso:
My young friend, there isn’t any merit in doing a thing which it is a pleasure to do, & therefore none is claimed this time by
Ys Truly
S L Clemens
(Mark Twain)
Hartford Aug 9/832.
To
Mr. Edward W. Bok.
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, R & R Enterprises Autograph Auctions, 14 Sept 2011, no. 375, lot 525, www.rrauction.com, last accessed 27 March 2025.
The photograph with Clemens’s note was “cherished by the family of the original recipient for decades” and was “the property of Bok’s daughter-in-law until June 2011.”
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.