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To Charles E. Perkins
18 October 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01497)

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Oct. 18.

slcDr Sir—Send this or tear it up, as your judgment shall dictate.1

If you decide to send it please tell them to hold the picture subject to Mr. D. Vorce’s order for a few days.—(for I should have him place it for sale in New York.)2

Please drop me a line when you receive this.

Yrs

S L C

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1Clemens enclosed a check to Davies and Company for $112, to cover the cost of the engraving, customs duty, and shipping charges.

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2Perkins conveyed these instructions on 19 October, with Clemens’s check. Davies and Company confirmed receipt of his payment on 23 October, and informed Clemens that they had sent the engraving to A. D. Vorce, a Hartford art dealer. Vorce wrote on 25 October, “We think of putting it up in good style & expose it for sale at a moderate price” (Davies and Company to SLC, 23 Oct 1877, CtHMTH; Vorce to SLC, 25 Oct 1877, CU-MARK).

Description of Texts and Provenance

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MS, correspondence card, in pencil, CtHMTH.

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MicroPUL, reel 1.

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See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenance.