To
Elisha Bliss, Jr.
18 November 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 01281)
18 November 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 01281)
Thursday.
Friend Bliss:
Please send me one of those dark green half morocco copies of the Sketch Book for Mrs. C.1explanatory note
Yrs
SLC.
united states postal card. | write the address only on this side—the message on the other | to American Publishing Co | 284 Asylum st | City | postmarked: hartford conn. nov 18 6 pm
Explanatory Notes
1 Bliss complied
on 20 November (APC 1876).
MS facsimile, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California (CU-MARK).
L6 , 592–592.
The present location of the MS is not known; the photocopy in CU-MARK was provided in 1972 by St. Mary’s Seminary in Perryville, Missouri (MoPeS). The postcard was one of “eight items of autograph material” donated to MoPeS in 1944 by Estelle Doheny. It is not clear whether this “material” consisted of manuscripts or photocopies. By 1982 the MoPeS archive contained only photocopies.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.