To James R. Osgood
16 May 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (Sales catalog: correspondence card, listed in City Book Auction, 24 April 1948, no. 409, lot 102, UCCL 10435)
16 May 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (Sales catalog: correspondence card, listed in City Book Auction, 24 April 1948, no. 409, lot 102, UCCL 10435)
Hartford, May 16 ’81.Ⓐemendation
slcⒶemendation My Dear Osgood—Ⓐemendation
ManyⒶemendation thanks for the check for $400. I hope your ailment is better; I think maybe my lumbago medicine is all right, as I still survive.
Yours truly,
S. L. Clemens.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ Hartford, May 16 ’81. ● reported, not quoted
Ⓐ slc ● monogram adapted from other correspondence cards of the time; see 7? May 81 to Webster
Ⓐ Osgood— ● Osgood. dash following salutation adopted from 7 May 81 to Osgood and other 1881 letters
References
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
Sales catalog, correspondence card, listed in City Book Auction, 24 April 1948, no. 409, lot 102.
MicroPUL, reel 2.