To
Moncure D. Conway
per Fanny C. Hesse
1? January 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NNC, UCCL 01396)
per Fanny C. Hesse
1? January 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NNC, UCCL 01396)
the 3. 10, for telegrams & things, and send me a bill of exchange for the rest at your convenience.
Behold the trouble you have made by sending Mrs Clemens the article about finger rings! She has long ago lost, or given away, a volume which exhaustively treated the subject of finger rings, the customs, traditions & superstitions, appertaining to them in all lands, and now she is suffering for that book. She had forgotten her loss until you reminded her of it. Now you tell Chatto to hunt up a copy of that book and send it here, and charge it to me, and you shall be forgiven.
Ever thine
Samℓ L.
Clemens
pr F. C. H
MS, Conway Papers, NNC.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
The Conway Papers were acquired by NNC sometime after Conway’s death in 1907.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.