To Orion or Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
16 or 17 August 1872 • New Saybrook, Conn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 10727)

51.

Hartford, July 18. 1872 1

S. L. Clemens,
Bought of W. K. Holt.

1 bbl. Flour, Haxall, 2 $.1600

[in pencil on the back] S. L. Clemens.

Pay this, if correct.

S. L. Clemens

O. K.
Cor. Forest & Hawthorne
Hartford
Conn [postmarked] new saybrook conn. aug 17 1872

Explanatory Notes

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1 Clemens wrote his note at the bottom of a bill from William K. Holt, a Hartford flour dealer, either on the day he mailed it or possibly the day before (Geer 1872, 79). The envelope address shows that he sent it either to Orion or to Mollie (see 20 or 21 July 72 to MEC, n. 3).

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2 The Haxall flour mill, founded by Phillip and William Haxall in 1809, was in Richmond, Virginia (Kuhlmann, 48–49).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous publication: L5, 148.

Provenance:see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.