To
Henry Lee
5 July 1873 • London, England. (Transcript and paraphrase: Parke-Bernet 1954, lot 633 UCCL 00944)
5 July 1873 • London, England. (Transcript and paraphrase: Parke-Bernet 1954, lot 633 UCCL 00944)
paraphrase:1explanatory note Accepts an invitation to the Whitefriars, but must leave again within an hour & a half in order to take my wife to a concert.
Clemens
Henry Lee Esq | 43 Holland street Ⓐemendation | Blackfriars Road, S.E.
Explanatory Notes
1
The date is supplied by the Parke-Bernet catalog.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
Esq | 43 Holland street ●
not in; address
adopted from five envelopes or postcards addressed to Lee in 1873,
all identical
Transcript and paraphrase, Parke-Bernet 1954, lot 633, which describes the letter as “CLEMENS, S. L.-A.L.s. ‘Clemens’. 1 p., 12mo [London, July 5, 1873]. With envelope addressed to ‘Henry Lee . . . Blackfriars Road, S.E.’”
L5 , 398.