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Source: Henkels (Stan V.) catalog, | University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "Is your father"

Source format: "Sales catalog | Two typed transcriptions"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2022-11-04T13:52:13

Revision History: Tehrani, Michelle | RHH 2022-11-04

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v5

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To Francis E. Bliss
11 July 1872 • New Saybrook, Conn. (Henkels 1930, lot 351, UCCL 00765)
fenwick hall. d. a. rood, proprietor.
new saybrook, conn., July 11, 187 2 Ⓐemendation
Friend Frank— Ⓐemendation

Is your father at home? & does he ever come down here. I have heard from Bret Harte1explanatory note

butⒶemendation I can’t leave here very well just now as our child is not well.

Mark. Ⓐemendation

Textual Commentary
11 July 1872 • To Francis E. Bliss • New Saybrook, Conn. • UCCL 00765
Source text(s):

Henkels 1930, lot 351, which describes the letter as an “A. L. S. 8vo, Fenwick Hall (with view of the Hotel), New Saybrook, Conn. July 11, 1872.”

Previous Publication:

L5 , 118.

Explanatory Notes
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Clemens had been trying to bring Elisha Bliss and Harte together to discuss publishing a book by Harte since mid-June (15 June 72 to Howells, n. 2click to open link). Harte’s letter to Clemens of 6 July, written from his sister’s family hotel in Morristown, New Jersey, has been found only as a fragmentary quotation in an auction catalog:

I don’t know what to say about going to Saybrook. The baby has been dangerously sick, and we shall not be able to leave here until she is better ... until Mrs Harte finds the wet-nurse, who, the Dr. says is essential ... I have spent much of my holiday season running to the Doctor’s ... (distant about 3 miles) and going to the city wet-nurse hunting. (AAA 1925, lot 322)

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  fenwick ... 187 2  ●  reported, not quoted; text of letterhead adopted from 30 July 72 to MECclick to open link
Ⓐ  Friend Frank— ●  To Friend Frank.
Ⓐ  Harte | .... | but ●  Harte *** but
Ⓐ  Mark. ●  Signed “Mark.”
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