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

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 24 Jan 1877 to Bliss, n.3).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

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.