16 or 17 August 1872 • New Saybrook, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 10727)
51.
Hartford, July 18. 1872 1explanatory note
S. L. Clemens,
Bought of W. K. Holt.
1 bbl. Flour, Haxall, 2explanatory note $.1600
in pencil on the back S. L. Clemens.
Pay this, if correct.
O. K. | Cor. Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | Conn postmarked new saybrook conn. aug 17 1872
Clemens wrote his note at the bottom of a bill from William K. Holt, a Hartford flour dealer, either on the day he mailed it or possibly the day before (Geer 1872, 79). The envelope address shows that he sent it either to Orion or to Mollie (see 20 or 21 July 72 to MEC, n. 3click to open link).
The Haxall flour mill, founded by Phillip and William Haxall in 1809, was in Richmond, Virginia (Kuhlmann, 48–49).
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 148.
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.