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To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
20 July 1872 • New Saybrook, Conn.
(MS: ViU, UCCL 00770)

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Fenwick Hall
20th.

Friend Bliss—

Been looking for Harte here. If he comes, will let you know.1 If he comes, he may run up to Hartford with me.

What does Lockwood say about the patent?2

Clemens.

[letter docketed:] Saml. Clemens | July 20th 72

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1 See 28 July 72 to Bliss, n.2.

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2 Henry C. Lockwood of Baltimore, inventor of an “elastic waist strap,” had secured an interest in the manufacture of Clemens’s adjustable garment strap as a result of his patent dispute with Clemens in the fall of 1871. Bliss was charged with pursuing the strap’s manufacture, which was never accomplished; nothing is known of his dealings with Lockwood (L4, 465–66 nn. 1, 5).

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MS, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).

glyph Previous publication: L5, 124.

glyph Provenance:deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 17 December 1963.