To James B. Pond
11 October 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: NN-BGC, UCCL 02507)
(SUPERSEDED)

Oct. 11.

My Dear Pond—

I seem to be in a tolerably fair way to compromise with that Baltimore man, but cannot tell yet.1

Yrs

Mark.

[letter docketed:] redpath lyceum hathaway & pond oct 20 1876 [and] Mark Twain | [rule]

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1 Clemens’s five-year patent conflict with “that Baltimore man,” Henry C. Lockwood, was not resolved by compromise and went into litigation in January 1877 (see L4, 465–66 nn. 1, 5; L5, 124 n. 2).

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MS, NN-BGC.

Previous publication: MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:It is not known when the MS became part of the Berg Collection, given by Dr. Albert A. Berg to NN in 1940, but continuously enlarged since then.