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Source: R & R Enterprises Autograph Auctions (rrauctions.com), now RR Auctions, Boston North End, Mass., ([])

Cue: "My young friend, there isn't any merit"

Source format: "MS facsimile, photograph"

Letter type: "photograph"

Notes:

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Published on MTPO: 2025

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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)

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.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, R & R Enterprises Autograph Auctions, 14 Sept 2011, no. 375, lot 525, https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/32430440375525-samuel-l-clemens/#mz-expanded-view-1678888650598, accessed 27 March 2025.

Provenance:

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.

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