To Charles E. Perkins
4–16 May 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01423)

Jan. 17/76, invested	$10,000.		Ill.
July 6
May 13/76	—″——	5,000		″
June 15/76	—″——	3,000		″
July 27 ″	—″——	3,000		″
Apl. 11/77	—″——	5,000		″
Dec. 12-/76	—″——	5,000		Bissell
		———
		$31,000

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Nov. 3/76 int. on loan———	$81.50
July 4—Ill int.—————	404.
Jan. 3/77 ″″ —————	450.
Feb. 3. ″″	135
Apl 12 ″″	180.
May. 2 ″″	90
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	1340.50

You perceive, Mr. Perkins, as per above, that in the last 16 months (since Jan. 17, 1876,) we have invested through you with Burnham, $26,000 & with Bissell, $5,000; total, $31,000. Miss Hesse’s accounts are so intolerably mixed that I can make neither head nor tail of them, but as far as I can see, we have received only $1340.50 interest. on that aggregate. I wish you would straighten up the interest account & tell me what interest we have received, item by item, & the dates of the reception, so that I can start fresh.1

Ys Truly

S L Clemens

$1340 seems to be about right, with nearly as much more to fall due July 1, but I am rather guessing at Miss Hesse’s items than proceeding on dead moral certainties.

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1Clemens probably wrote this letter between 4 May, when his secretary, Fanny C. Hesse, temporarily left his employ, and 16 May, by which time he was on the first leg of his trip to Bermuda with Twichell (1 Nov 1876 to Langdon, n. 1). Burnham, McKinley and Company was a brokerage firm in Champaign, Illinois (17 Jan 1876 to the cashier, First National Bank of Hartford, n. 1).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, in pencil, CtHMTH.

Previous publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenance.