To Edward W. Bok
9 August 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: R & R Enterprises Autograph Auctions, 14 September 2011, no. 375, lot 525, UCCL 13384)
9 August 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: R & R Enterprises Autograph Auctions, 14 September 2011, no. 375, lot 525, UCCL 13384)
cabinet photo by Mora of head and shoulders of Twain in white suit:
written on the verso:
My young friend, there isn’t any merit in doing a thing which it is a pleasure to do, & therefore none is claimed this time by
Ys Truly
S L Clemens
(Mark Twain)
Hartford Aug 9/832.
To
Mr. Edward W. Bok.
MS facsimile, R & R Enterprises Autograph Auctions, 14 Sept 2011, no. 375, lot 525, rrauctions.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=525, accessed 18 August 2011.
The photograph with Clemens’s note was “cherished by the family of the original recipient for decades” and was “the property of Bok’s daughter-in-law until June 2011.”
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.