To the Cashier, First National Bank of Hartford
17 January 1876 • (MS facsimile: RR Auction, 18 June 2014, lot 487, UCCL 13649)
17 January 1876 • (MS facsimile: RR Auction, 18 June 2014, lot 487, UCCL 13649)
$10,000
Hartford, Jan. 17/76
Dear Sir:
Please send by to Chas. E. Perkins, Esq., 14 State st. a New York draft for $1 Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dollars, payable to the order of Messrs. Burnham, McKinley & Co., & charge to my “Personal” Account.1explanatory note
Yrs Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens
To
Cashier First Natl
Explanatory Notes
1 Charles E. Perkins was Clemens's Hartford friend and lawyer. The cashier of the First
National Bank of Hartford, and then president from 1883 until his death, was Charles
Stanton Gillette (1843-87). Since Clemens did not address him by name, presumably
he was not an acquaintance. Burnham, McKinley and Company was a banking and brokerage
firm based in Champaign, Illinois. Between January 1876 and May 1877 Clemens invested
$26,000 with the firm, employing Perkins as his agent (see 4-16 May 1877 to Perkins;
Hart et al. 1917, 4: 13-14; Geer 1875, 292; Bateman, Selby, and Cunningham 1905, 2:877).
MS facsimile, RR Auction online catalog, sale of 18 June 2014, accessed 28 May 2014, lot 487.
Offered for sale by Lion Heart Autographs, 30 September 2015, lot 106.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.