To Anson or Edward L. Burlingame
7 July 1866 • (MS: DLC, UCCL 10786)
7 July 1866 • (MS: DLC, UCCL 10786)
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on the verso:
Yours Truly
Sam. L. Clemens
alias “Mark Twain”
edouart’s photograph gallery 634 washington st. san francisco.
Honolulu, July 7, 1866.1explanatory note
stamped: the library of congress
Explanatory Notes
1
Anson and Edward Burlingame left Honolulu on 7 July on the “Bark Swallow” for Yokohama, on the first leg of their journey to China, the day Clemens signed and dated his carte de visite and gave it to one or both of them, perhaps at the dock (Burlingame 1866; see 21 June 1866click to open link to JLC and PAM, notes 5 and 7).
MS inscription on carte de visite photograph, Anson Burlingame and Edward L. Burlingame family papers, Manuscript Divison, DLC.
The Burlingame family papers were donated to DLC by Roger Burlingame in 1955.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.