To
Harriet (Hattie) Lewis
25 December 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (Inscription in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
Walpole Galleries, 19 July 1927, lot 359, UCCL 10339)
25 December 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (Inscription in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
Walpole Galleries, 19 July 1927, lot 359, UCCL 10339)
Hattie L. Lewis,1explanatory note
Merry Christmas, 1877.
Explanatory Notes
1 Harriet Lewis was Olivia Clemens’s maternal first cousin. She had supported
Clemens in his courtship of Olivia (10 Jan 1869 to Lewis, L3, 23–24 n. 2).
Inscription in an 1877 imprint of SLC 1876, Walpole Galleries catalog, sale of 19 July 1927, lot 359. The catalog’s italics have been rendered here as roman type.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
One of six items from the collection of Harriet Lewis offered for sale in 1927 by Walpole Galleries.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.