Jump to Content

Add to My CitationsTo the First National Bank of Hartford
or George P. Bissell and Co.
29? June 1876 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 09063)
Click to add citation to My Citations.
figure-ii1234
[in left margin:]

Make check payable to John Franey, Esq., & send it to Mr. Perkins.1

S. L. C.

[verso:]
figure-ii1235

Explanatory Notes

Add to My Citations

Click to add citation to My Citations.
1

On 28 June Charles E. Perkins, Clemens’s lawyer, had forwarded Franey’s statement of 1876 property taxes to Elmira. Assessed values were prepared in the fall of each year and announced the following March, with taxes on them payable by 15 July (see 16 Oct 1876 to Perkins, n. 1). Based on the fall of 1875 assessed value of $63,360, Clemens’s bill came to $1300.22; .as the form states, however, taxpayers were entitled to a 2 percent discount if the bill was paid in full “on or before July 15.” Perkins’s letter of 28 June states, “I enclose your tax bill with the 2 pc figured out—Send me a check payable to ‘John Franey’—for $127741—& I will get bill receipted & send to you.” Clemens may have intended the present note, written on the tax statement, for the First National Bank of Hartford, or for George P. Bissell and Company, Hartford bankers (22 Feb 1877 to Hesse, n. 1). The requested check was sent to Clemens who then, on 1 July, enclosed it in a letter to Perkins that is not known to survive. Perkins paid the tax bill two days later, and returned the form, now signed and dated by Franey, as proof of payment (Perkins to SLC, 17 June 1876, 28 June 1876, 3 July 1876, CU-MARK; Geer 1876, 34, 292).



glyphglyphSource text(s):glyph
MS, in pencil, CU-MARK, enclosed in Charles E. Perkins to SLC, 3 July 1876, UCLC 32385.

glyphglyphPrevious publication:glyph

MicroPUL, reel 1.

glyphglyphProvenance:glyph

See Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.