To
Matthew H. Bartlett
October 1877 • 1st of 3 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, inscription in The Innocents Abroad: CtHMTH, UCCL 09280)
October 1877 • 1st of 3 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, inscription in The Innocents Abroad: CtHMTH, UCCL 09280)
To Mr. Bartlett, who has robbed the historical
command “Away with him to the
Tower!” of all its terrors—this,
With the grateful acknowledgments of
Mark Twain1explanatory note
Hartford, Oct. 1877.
Explanatory Notes
1 In 1867 Matthew Henry Bartlett (1833–1914) and his nephew, Charles A. Kellogg, built
Bartlett tower on Talcott Mountain, which became a favorite destination for Clemens
and Twichell on their walks. Bartlett was a former owner and publisher of the Hartford
Republican, a weekly newspaper, later remembered by the Courant as “the only free soil paper in this vicinity” (“Bartlett Tower Builder Is Dead,”
Hartford Courant, 15 Dec 1914, 4).
MS, inscription in an 1876 imprint of SLC 1869, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.