To
John C. Merritt
22 February 1877 • 1st of 2 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript and paraphrase: CU-MARK, UCCL 12556)
(SUPERSEDED)
22 February 1877 • 1st of 2 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript and paraphrase: CU-MARK, UCCL 12556)
(SUPERSEDED)
Check dated 19 February on the National City Bank of Brooklyn, New York, to Saml. L. Clemens or order in the amount of 40 cents. On the front:
Dr. This shall be religiously devoted to the purpose specified & I shall drink your health.
Transcript and paraphrase in CU-MARK courtesy of T. F. Flanagan.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.
Quotation marks around Clemens’s note have been silently omitted.