To James R. Osgood
6 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: Sotheby’s, New York, October 1996, UCCL 11962)
6 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: Sotheby’s, New York, October 1996, UCCL 11962)
Feb. 6.
slcMy Dear Osgood—
Mrs. Clemens informs me that I am going to the Papyrus orgie. A remark of that sort, emanating from that quarter, has this resemblance to the moving of the previous question: it is not debatable.
Truly Yrs
S L Clemens
MS, correspondence card, Sotheby’s, New York, October 1996.
American Art Association catalog, 16 April 1925, lot 27, paraphrase; Bauman Rare Books catalog, undated, item 236; Superior Galleries catalog, 29 May 1993, lot 114, MS facsimile; Sotheby’s catalog, 29 October 1996, lot 224; MicroPUL, reel 2.
The MS was purchased at the Superior Galleries sale of 29 May 1993 by Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs, who sold it at Sotheby’s in 1996. It was laid in a copy of SLC 1881.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.