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To Francis E. Bliss
15 June 1879 • Paris, France (MS, in pencil: Sotheby’s, New York,
December 1993, UCCL 01670)
My Dear Frank—

I think I wouldn’t use the picture which represents me lying on my back drinking from a bottle. It is not very well done, & there is no reference in the MS to that manner of “taking an observation.” I took it with a thermometer, not a bottle.

Yrs S L C
letter docketed:

S. L. Clemens | June 15.79

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, collection of Robert Daley, seen at Sotheby’s, New York, while awaiting sale in December 1993.

Previous Publication:

Sotheby’s catalog, 10–11 December 1993, no. 6515, lot 214, partial publication; MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Offered for sale by Sotheby’s in December 1993.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

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