To Paul Apfelstedt
2? August 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: ViU, UCCL 01460)

Hartford, U.S., Aug. ’771

slcDear Sir: From my study, which has also a “schoene Aussicht” (if I am translating rightly), I greet you, & comply with your request with great pleasure.2

Very Truly Yours

Samℓ. L. Clemens
Mark Twain

Paul Apfelstedt, Esq

Explanatory Notes

Editorial Signs

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1This letter has been conjecturally dated 2 August, the day Clemens wrote from Hartford to George M. Fenn; no evidence has been found that he was in Hartford at any other time in August 1877.

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2Clemens, writing from his study with a “schoene Aussicht” (beautiful view), replied to a request from Paul Alexander Apfelstedt (1849–1933), an autograph collector in Frankfurt, Germany (Budan 1900, 276).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, ViU.

Previous publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 17 December 1963.