To Karl Gerhardt
21 September 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 00586)
21 September 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 00586)
Sunday, Sept 21/84.
My Dear K—
We think it better that you have several specimens of your work to show—therefore go ahead & put the medallion-children in marble.
We all reach Br Hotel Brunswick, New York, Tuesday, & Hartford Friday evening.
In great haste, to catch a wagon.
Yrs
S L Clemens
Mr. Karl Gerhardt | 1603 Summer st | Philadelphia | Pa return address: return to s. l. clemens, hartford, conn., if not delivered within 10 days. postmarked: elmira n.y. sep 21 1884 5 pm and received phil’a. sep 22 8 am
MS, in pencil, CU-MARK.
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc catalog, sale of 28 April 1982, no. 4844Y, lot 268, partial transcription; MicroPUL, reel 2; Sotheby’s catalog, sale of 19 June 2003, lot 45, partial transcription.
Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch gave the letter to one Mrs. Seely on 26 April 1938 in place of an autograph of her father, as documented in a letter of that date in CU-MARK (UCCL 49868). The letter, together with an envelope postmarked 23 September 1884 (UCCL 11909), was purchased at the Sotheby’s sale of 19 June 2003 from the collection of Nick Karanovich. The envelope for the present letter was already in CU-MARK; its provenance is not known.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.