To Charles E. Perkins
11 December 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, postal card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01393)
(SUPERSEDED)

Monday,1

Raymond still waits for the contract? Will you draw it & let me see it?2

I have another contract, to be drawn, also, & a deed to be examined.3

Ys Truly

S L Clemens

us postal card. write the address on this side—the message on the other | Chas. E. Perkins, Esq | 14 State st | City [postmarked:] hartford conn. [dec 12] 1pm

Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary

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1 Clemens’s postmark—12 December, a Tuesday—establishes the date of writing.

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2 A revised contract for Colonel Sellers, which Raymond and Clemens had recently been negotiating (see 27 Oct 76 to Raymond).

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3 The contract was with Charles T. Parsloe, the actor who was to play the title role in Ah Sin (see 20 Dec 1876 to Perkins).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Copy-text:

MS, postal card, in pencil, CtHMTH.

Previous publication:MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

dec 12 • dec 1[2] [badly inked]