To
James B. Pond
11 October 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NN-BGC, UCCL 02507)
(SUPERSEDED)
11 October 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NN-BGC, UCCL 02507)
(SUPERSEDED)
Oct. 11.
My Dear Pond—
I seem to be in a tolerably fair way to compromise with that Baltimore man, but cannot tell yet.1explanatory note
Yrs
Mark.
letter docketed: redpath lyceum hathaway & pond oct 20 1876 and Mark Twain | rule
Explanatory Notes
1
Clemens’s five-year patent conflict with “that Baltimore man,” Henry C. Lockwood, was not resolved by compromise and went into litigation in January 1877 (see L4 , 465–66 nn. 1, 5; L5 , 124 n. 2).
MicroPUL, reel 1.
It is not known when the MS became part of the Berg Collection, given by Dr. Albert A. Berg to NN in 1940, but continuously enlarged since then.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.