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

Cue: "Send this or"

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

Letter type: "correspondence card"

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To Charles E. Perkins
18 October 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01497)
Oct. 18.

slcDr Sir—Send this or tear it up, as your judgment shall dictate.1explanatory note

If you decide to send it please tell them to hold the picture subject to Mr. D. Vorce’s order for a few days.—(for I should have him place it for sale in New York.)2explanatory note

Please drop me a line when you receive this.

Yrs
S L C
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Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, in pencil, CtHMTH.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 Clemens enclosed a check to Davies and Company for $112, to cover the cost of the engraving, customs duty, and shipping charges.
2 Perkins conveyed these instructions on 19 October, with Clemens’s check. Davies and Company confirmed receipt of his payment on 23 October, and informed Clemens that they had sent the engraving to A. D. Vorce, a Hartford art dealer. Vorce wrote on 25 October, “We think of putting it up in good style & expose it for sale at a moderate price” (Davies and Company to SLC, 23 Oct 1877, CtHMTH; Vorce to SLC, 25 Oct 1877, CU-MARK).
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