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Add to My CitationsTo Miss Holmes
13 April 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CLjC, UCCL 11456)
(SUPERSEDED)
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Apl. 13, 1877.

My Dear Miss Holmes:

It gives me great pleasure to comply with your request. You will perceive that after seven years’ devotion to Art I have improved considerably in figure drawing. I regard figure-drawing as my specialty, although some think I am as good at landscapes & still life., these persons even carrying compliment so far as to say they cannot tell my landscapes from my still life, nor either of them from ‸my‸ marine views.

In this portrait the President is not saying “Now I lay me down to sleep.” left white bracketSee note under picture for explanation of the situation.”right white bracket

Ys Truly

S. L. Clemens
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MS, CLjC.

glyphglyphPrevious publication:glyph Sotheby’s catalog, 23 October 1987, no. 5621, lot 8, with omissions; MicroPUL, reel 1.

glyphglyphProvenance:glyphThe MS was sold by Sotheby’s, New York, in October 1987, at which time it was bought by John Feldman. It was later purchased by CLjC.