To
Francis E. Bliss
15 June 1879 • Paris, France
(MS, in pencil: Sotheby’s, New York,
December 1993, UCCL 01670)
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Paris, June 15.
My Dear Frank—
I think I wouldn’t use the picture which represents me lying on my back drinking from a bottle. It is not very well done, & there is no reference in the MS to that manner of “taking an observation.” I took it with a thermometer, not a bottle.
Yrs S L C
Source text(s):MS, in pencil, collection of Robert Daley, seen at Sotheby’s, New York, while awaiting sale in December
1993.
Previous publication:Sotheby’s catalog, 10–11 December 1993, no. 6515, lot 214, partial publication; MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:Offered for sale by Sotheby’s in December 1993.
