Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "When I was asking you for Voltaire's Age of Louis"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2010-01-07T10:09:39

Revision History: HES | ldm 2010-01-07

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To James R. Osgood and Co.
2 November 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: Aguttes Online auction catalog, sale of 3 April 2019, lot 728, CU-MARK, UCCL 12731)
Nov. 2/81.
Dear Sirs:

When I was asking you for Voltaire’s "Age of Louis XIV" (which I want in English,) I forgot to say I also wanted the Memoirs of St Simon (in English.)

Ys truly,
S L Clemens

letter is stamped:james r. osgood & co. boston. nov 3 1881and docketed in red ink: [“Mark Twain”]

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, Aguttes auction catalog, sale of 3 April 2019, lot 728.

Provenance:

Albert Bigelow Paine saw this letter and had it transcribed; typescript in CU-MARK.

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

Top