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Source: Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn ([CtHMTH])

Cue: "Apply to Chas"

Source format: "MS, postal card, in pencil"

Letter type: "postal card"

Notes:

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Published on MTPO: 2022

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To Charles E. Perkins
11 August 1877 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, postal card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01469)

Apply to Chas. T. Parsloe, 39 McDougalls st, New York—I don’t know that joint-agent’s name myself.1explanatory note

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us postal card. | write the address on this side—the message on the other | Chas. E. Perkins, Esq 14 State st Hartford Conn postmarked: elmira n.y. aug 11 10am

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Source text(s):

MS, postal card, in pencil, CtHMTH.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 The letter to which Clemens replied is now lost, but presumably it concerned the search for an agent to accompany Parsloe on tour and forward the proceeds from Ah Sin (Parsloe to SLC, 10 Aug 1877, CU-MARK). In a letter to Clemens of 20 August, Parsloe endorsed Maze Edwards, calling him “thoroughly competent,” but pointed out that Edwards’s employer, Horace Wall, would have to consent. By 25 August that had been accomplished, and an agreement was drawn up, stipulating that Edwards would receive forty dollars a week and transportation costs (Parsloe to SLC, 20 Aug 1877, CU-MARK; Parsloe and Edwards to SLC, 25 Aug 1877, CU-MARK).
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