To
Victor Wolff
per Fanny C. Hesse
1? January 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, signed by SLC: NN, UCCL 10739)
per Fanny C. Hesse
1? January 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, signed by SLC: NN, UCCL 10739)
slc
farmington avenue, hartford.
Victor Wolff Esqr
Dear Sir—
I accept with thanks the honor conferred upon me in my election to an Honorary membership of the “Cluster Literary Union.”1explanatory note
Very truly yours,
Samℓ. L. Clemens
Explanatory Notes
1 Victor H. Wolff was president of the Cluster Literary Union of New York, an “association
of young men” active in the late 1860s and 1870s. The society extended honorary memberships
to other literary men of the time, including William Cullen Bryant and Horatio Alger,
Jr. (“Lectures and Meetings,” New York Sun, 26 Nov 1868, 1; New York Times: “Third Annual Ball of the Literary Cluster Society,” 19 Nov 1869, 5; “The Ball Season,”
16 Nov 1871, 2; Bryant 1992, 360; Scharnhorst and Bales 1985, 119; in the last two publications “Cluster” has been misread as “Chester”).
MS, signed, by SLC, David McNeely Stauffer Collection, NN.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
The David McNeely Stauffer Collection was donated to NN by Mrs. O. H. Rogers in three deposits, 1933, 1934, and 1941.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.