24 September 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00432)
By authority of this document I introduce you to my wife, & beg that you will administer the accompanying oath & otherwise complete & make valid the accompanying power of attorney.2explanatory note
It will be a very great fe favor Ⓐemendationif you can save her the necessity of getting out of the carriage, for is not strong & face Ⓐemendationfacing the terrors of the law in your awe-inspiring den.
Locke was an attorney at the Buffalo law firm of Dennis Bowen and Sherman S. Rogers, which regularly handled legal matters for Clemens. By 1871 the firm had become Bowen, Rogers and Locke (16 and 17 Apr 70 to the Langdons; Buffalo Directory: 1870, 304, 426, 550; 1871, 276, 422, 576).
Doubtless authorizing Clemens to act on his wife’s behalf in financial matters. He already was one of the executors of Jervis Langdon’s estate.
MS, Cyril Clemens Collection, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).
L4 , 200.
donated to CtHMTH in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.
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