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Source: Butterfields Auctioneers Corp. catalog, ([])

Cue: "Merry Christmas to Clara Clemens"

Source format: "MS facsimile, inscription"

Letter type: "inscription"

Notes:

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Published on MTPO: 2025

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To Clara L. Clemens
25 December 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile, inscription in Richard Markham, ed., The Chronicle of the Cid (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1883): Butterfield and Butterfield catalog, 16 July 1997, nos. 6612 and 6613, lot 2684, UCCL 12639)

Merry Christmas

to

Clara Clemens

1884.

From Papa.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, inscription in Richard Markham, ed., The Chronicle of the Cid (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1883), Butterfield and Butterfield catalog, 16 July 1997, nos. 6612 and 6613, lot 2684.

Provenance:

sold from Clemens’s library in 1951 by Clara Clemens.

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

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