To
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
28 January 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, postal card, in pencil: Craven, UCCL 01303)
(SUPERSEDED)
Hartford 28
I’m perfectly delighted! I would rather have captured you than any man I know. I have been in the doctor’s hands for 2 months, but your confession has brought ‸me‸ around again, my boy!1
Ys Ever
S L C.
us postal card. write the address on this side—the message on the other | Thos. Bailey Aldrich, Esq | Ponkapog | Mass. [postmarked:] [hartford] conn. [jan 31 12m]
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
Copy-text:Previous publication:Christie’s catalog, 10 December 1999, lot 148; MicroPUL, reel
1.
Provenance:Part of the collection of Sidney L. Krauss, the postcard was inherited by his daughter, Mrs. Robin Craven, and it was later offered
for sale by Christie’s on 10 December 1999 as an item in the Sidney L. Krauss collection.
Emendations and textual notes:
hartford • har[tf]ord [badly inked]
jan 31 12m • jan [3]1 [1]2m [badly inked]
