To Mr. Gerard
6 July 1875 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 01246)

July 6.

Dear Mr. Gerard:1

Our architect is Mr. Edward T. Potter, 56 Wall st., N. Y., up stairs. He has drawings. He also knows of a picture of the house which appeared in a Boston architectural journal 12 or 15 months ago—name I’ve forgotten.2

I have some photographs of the house, but they are not very satisfactory. New Will you have them, or would you prefer to wait for some new ones which are soon to be taken?

Very Truly Yrs

Samℓ. L. Clemens

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2 The drawing of the house, by Potter himself, was published in the New-York Sketch-Book of Architecture in April 1874 (see p. 688). The journal was published in Boston by J. R. Osgood and Company and in New York by E. P. Dutton and Company.

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Source text(s):

MS, Cyril Clemens Collection, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).

Previous publication: L6, 506–507.

Provenance:donated in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.