8 August 1872 • (2nd of 2) • New Saybrook, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00789)
Please send the Enclosed check to Kellogg & Co.1explanatory note
All well. I am going to England in a week from now.2explanatory note
O. K. | Cor. Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | Conn. Ⓐemendation postmarked: new saybrook conn. aug 9 1872
The “Enclosed check” does not survive. E. C. C. Kellogg and Company were Hartford gunsmiths who advertised themselves as “Locksmiths, Bellhangers, grinding and polishing, and General Jobbing. Ammunition and Fishing Tackle, &c.” (Geer 1872, 84). A receipt in the Mark Twain Papers, dated 6 August, for “Hanging Bell,” suggests that Kellogg and Company installed the prowler alarm recently requested by Clemens (20–23 July 72 to MEC, n. 1click to open link).
Clemens’s actual departure date, 21 August, would be determined by Joseph Blamire’s advice (see the next letter, n. 1).
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 142.
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.