To
Charles E. Perkins
11 December 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, postal card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01393)
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
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
The postmark on the letter—12 December, a Tuesday—indicates that it was written on Monday, 11 December.
A revised contract for
Colonel Sellers, which Raymond and Clemens had recently been negotiating (27 Oct 1876 to Raymond).
The contract was with Charles T. Parsloe, the actor who was to play the title role in
Ah Sin
(20 Dec 1876 to Perkins).
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:
See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenance.
Emendations and textual notes:
dec 12 • dec 1[2] [badly inked]
