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No. 1a, Karlstrasse,
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Munich, Nov. 20/78.
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My Dear Sir:
My mind is gradually breaking down under the strain of trying to get those clocks into the United States without loss of life. I took that oath here before our consul & shipped it home—& your letter along with it to help explain it. But of course I forgot to keep a memorandum of the Geneva clock-merchant’s name; so I am obliged to send the 13 francs to you instead of to him. (which I shall do by postal order this evening.) Now if you will just pigeon-hole it till he calls for it, all will [be.] ‸well.‸ If he never calls, let him suffer, & thereby grow in grace.
It is not impossible that I shall be in Geneva again, by & by, in which case I shall do myself the pleasure to look you up & thank you for letting me trouble you so much.
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):MS, correspondence card, CtHMTH.
Previous publication:Christie’s East catalog, 22 May 2000, no. 8343, lot 231, paraphrase; Sotheby’s catalog, 19 June 2003, lot
34; MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:The MS was part of the Sidney L. Krauss Collection before May 2000, when it was offered for sale by Christie’s East.
It was bought by Nick Karanovich and sold after his death to CtHMTH
through Sotheby’s in June 2003.
Emendations and textual notes:
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