To Henry C. Robinson
11 July 1883 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile: RR Auction catalog, UCCL 11235)
11 July 1883 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile: RR Auction catalog, UCCL 11235)
Elmira, N.Y. July 11.
Dear Brer Robinson—
I hope you’ll make the Engineering Co. take care of that note of mine July 26th.
I received the slip you sent me. It was good.
I wish I could be there to assist at that 500-point game. But as you were four-fifths out at last accounts, I suppose the conflict is over before this.
Mrs. Clemens is still a skeleton, but is freighting up at the rate of an ounce a day, & soⒶemendation the prospect for ultimate recovery is quite bright. The rest all well, & join in kindest regards to you & Mrs. Robinson.
Yours Sincerely
S L Clemens
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ so ● badly inked; possibly wiped out
MS facsimile, RR Auction catalog, https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/33069710416547-samuel-l-clemens/?cat=0, sale of 16 October 2013, lot 547, accessed 21 April 2023.
MicroPUL, reel 2; Sotheby’s catalog, 19 June 2003, lot 38, partial transcription; RR Auction catalog, 8 December 2010, lot 563, MS facsimile and partial transcription; Skinner catalog, sale of 13 November 2011, lot 26, partial MS facsimile.
This letter was tipped into a homemade autograph book owned by Mary J. Rogers, who worked for the Robinson family in their Woodside Circle home. She gave it to her son, Charles A. E. Rogers, who worked for The Hartford Club. The book originally contained two Clemens letters to Mr. Robinson and one to Mrs. Robinson. At some point, the letters were removed from the book and separated. This letter to Robinson was acquired by Nick Karanovich on an unknown date and sold at auction with his Mark Twain collection in 2003. The letter went up for auction again in 2010, 2011, and 2013 (see source text and previous publication information above).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.