Sept. 14.
Friend Bliss—
Don’t forget to put this in Tom Sawyer:
[five lines enclosed in diamond:]
To
My Wife
This book
is
Affectionately Dedicated.
Yrs
Clemens
Copy-text:Previous publication:
SLC 1982, no page, facsimile.
Provenance:The letter was apparently kept with the holograph manuscript of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which passed from
Elisha Bliss, Jr., to his son Walter. Walter Bliss died in 1917; before
1926, the manuscript was bought by Nicholas F. Brady. After
Brady’s death in 1930, the manuscript became the property of his
widow, Genevieve Garvan Brady, who donated it to DGU in April 1934 (SLC 1982, ix).
