22 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: eBay Live Auctions catalog, sale of 8 June 2005, lot 297, UCCL 10955)
Will you please ask your husband to write his name half a dozen times on each of the enclosed half-sheets & return them to me in the envelop which I herewith (intend to send, if I don’t forget it.) I wish to procure a letter of credit upon European banks; & he will understand that these signatures are to go to the banks, to be used in verifying the signature appended to his letter of credit.
I go to Boston tomorrow to remain till Friday, else I would look in, meantime, to see how the preparations for flight are progressing—for I shall need a few days notice in order to secure good berths in the French steamer.
I address myself to you because I have been acquainted with you longer than I have with your husband—so it comes handier.
MS facsimile, eBay Live Auctions catalog, sale of 8 June 2005, lot 297.
American Art Association catalog, 10 and 11 March 1924, lot 555, paraphrase; MicroPUL, reel 2.
The MS was offered for sale in 1924 from the collection of William F. Gable. It was owned in 1949 by Dorothy L. Pape of Cincinnati, who sent a handwritten transcript of it to Cyril Clemens; he donated it to CtHMTH in 1984. The MS was again offered for sale on eBay in 2005.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.