5 December 1872 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: OCHP, UCCL 00842)
Dan Slote tells me to drop you this line & sign my name to it, & you will understand it—a thing which I do with great pleasure.
Mark Twain.
A To A. W Whelpley Esq
Albert W Whelpley Esq | Care Robt. Clarke & Co | Cincinnati | Ohio on flap: slc postmarked: hartford dec 5 ◇◇◇ Ⓐemendation
Whelpley (1831–1900) was born in New York City, but moved to Cincinnati in the 1850s. He was associated with the publishing house of Robert Clarke Company, primarily as a salesman, until 1886, when he became the librarian of the Cincinnati Public Library. Upon his death he left a large collection of letters, poems, and other material by well-known nineteenth-century political and literary figures. Many of the letters, such as this one, were addressed personally to him (Greve, 2:440–41; Cincinnati Public Library, 87).
MS, Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati (OCHP).
L5 , 248.
The MS is in the Whelpley Autograph Collection, donated to OCHP in 1906 by Mrs. Albert Whelpley.
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