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Source: The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011 ([CLjC])

Cue: "Jean is just over a solid attack of diphtheria"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "fragment"

Notes:

Last modified: 2005-02-24T00:00:00

Revision History: Larson, Brian | BL 2005-02-24 was ODa2

Published on MTPO: 2023

Print Publication:

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To Karl Gerhardt and Hattie J. Gerhardt
20? July 1883 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CLjC, UCCL 11182)

beginning of letter missing

Jean is just over a solid attack of diphtheria, & is all right again. Mrs. Clemens is fleshing up steadily—is as fat as the tongs, now. The rest of us are shamefully healthy. With all our loves to the three—

S L C
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, CLjC.

Previous Publication:

Sotheby’s catalog, 29 October 1996, lot 232, partial transcription; MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

acquired by Paul C. Richards in 1967; acquired by Seven Gables in 1971; sold in the auction of the Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs Collection at Sotheby’s in 1996 (see previous publication above).

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

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