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To Charles E. Perkins
11 December 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, postal card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01393)
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Raymond still waits for the contract? Will you draw it & let me see it?2explanatory note

I have another contract, to be drawn, also, & a deed to be examined.3explanatory note

Ys Truly
S L Clemens

us postal card. write the address on this side—the message on the other | Chas. E. Perkins, Esq | 14 State st | City postmarked: hartford conn. dec 12emendation 1pm

Textual Commentary
Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 

Clemens’s postmark—12 December, a Tuesday—establishes the date of writing.

2 

A revised contract for Colonel Sellers , which Raymond and Clemens had recently been negotiating (see 27 Oct 76 to Raymondclick to open link).

3 

The contract was with Charles T. Parsloe, the actor who was to play the title role in Ah Sin (see 20 Dec 1876 to Perkinsclick to open link).

Emendations and Textual Notes
  dec 12  ●  dec 1[2] badly inked